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The prospect of global history /

The prospect of global history / edited by James Belich, John Darwin, Margret Frenz and Chris Wickham. - First edition. - xiv, 222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Conceptual Considerations. Introduction: The prospect of global history / James Belich, John Darwin, and Chris Wickham -- Global history and historical sociology / Jürgen Osterhammel -- The economist and global history / Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke -- II. Global Circulations. Unnecessary dependences: illustrating circulation in pre-modern large-scale history / Nicholas Purcell -- A global Middle Ages? / Robert I. Moore -- The Black Death and the spread of Europe / James Belich -- The Qing Empire in the fabric of global history / Matthew W. Mosca -- III. Global Networks. Global history from an Islamic angle / Francis Robinson -- The real American empire / Antony G. Hopkins -- Writing constitutions and writing world history / Linda Colley -- Afterword: History on a global scale / John Darwin.

9780198732259 9780198820680


World history.
Globalization.

909 / P966