Foundations for Solid Research: A Bibliography of Works in World History for Graduate Study
Revised December 2000, with the assistance of Jeremy Neill
Precursors:
Early Works in World History
Economic Studies in World History
World Systems
Demographics, Population Change
Environmental History
Cultural History in a World Context: Development and Interaction
Theory and Methodology
Technology
Colonialism and Imperialism
Gender
Precursors:
Early Works in World History:
Herder
J. G., Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind.
(1784-1791). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968
Hegel, G. W. F., Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1830).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975
Hobson, J.A. Imperialism. New York, 1902.
Marx, Karl. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. (1851.) NewYork: New World Paperbacks, 1998
Ranke, Leopold von. Weltgeschichte, 8 vols. (1879-1887).
Wells,
H. G., The Outline of History, Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind
(London, 1920) Garden City: Doubleday, 1971
Spengler, Oswald. The Decline of the West, 2 vols., trans. Charles
Francis Atkinson (London, 1926). New York: A. Knopf, 1996
Toynbee, Arnold J., A Study of History, 10 vols. (London, 1933-1948). The first three volumes of Toynbee's study appeared in 1933, vols. 4-6 in 1939, and vols. 7-10 in 1948. Abridged version published in New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1995
Economic
Studies in World History:
Chaudhuri, K. N., Asia Before Europe: Economy and Civilization of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Curtin, Philip D., Cross-Cultural Trade in World History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. See also under culture.
Frank, Andre Gunder. Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1967.
Latham A. J. H., The International Economy and the Underdeveloped World, 1865-1914. London: Croom Helm, 1978.
Liu, Xinru. Ancient India and Ancient China : Trade and Religious Exchanges Ad 1-600. Oxford: Oxford University Press , 1995. See also under culture
Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000
Stearns, Peter. The Industrial Revolution in World History. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998.
Williams, Eric. Capitalism & Slavery. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press (1944) reprint 1994 .
Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Era of Philip II, 2 vols. (1948). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995
Braudel, Fernand. Civilization and Capitalism. 3 vols. London: Fontana Press, 1979.
Chaudhuri, K. N., Asia Before Europe: Economy and Civilization of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750. Cambridge University Press, 1990. See also under economics
Frank, Andre Gunder and Barry K. Gills, eds., The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand? New York: Routledge, 1993.
Frank, Andre Gunder, ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Kennedy, Paul, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000. New York: Random House, 1987.
Landes, David. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: why some are so rich and some so poor. London: Little Brown, 1998.
Abu Lughod, Janet, Before European Hegemony: the world system A.D. 1250-1350. New York: Oxford University Press 1989.
McNeill, William H.. The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.
Wallerstein, Immanuel, The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century. New York: Academic Press 1974.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. The Modern World-System, II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750. New York: Academic Press, 1980.
Wallerstein, Immanuel, The Modern World-System, III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World Economy, 1730-1840s. New York: Academic Press, 1989
Wolf, Eric, Europe and the People without History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
Demographics, Population Change:
Cohen, Robin. Global Diasporas : An Introduction. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.
Curtin, Philip D. The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969.
Manning, Patrick. Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Pan, Lynn. Sons of the Yellow Emperor: a History of the Chinese Diaspora. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.
Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1972.
Crosby, Alfred W., Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997.
Fagan, Brian M. Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations. New York, Harpercollins, 2000.
Hughes, J. Donald. The Face of the Earth: Environment and World History (Sources and Studies in World History). Armonk, NY: M. E. sharpe, 1999.
Kurlansky, Mark. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World. Penguin, 1998.
McNeill, J. R., and Paul Kennedy. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.
McNeill, William H. Plagues and Peoples. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1976.
Ponting, Clive, A Green History of the World: the Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
Simmons, Aan G., and Ian G. Simmons. Changing the Face of the Earth: Culture, Environment, History. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
Watts, Sheldon. Epidemics and History: Disease, Power and Imperialism. New Haven: Yale UP, 1999.
Cultural History in a World Context: Development and Interaction:
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London. London: Verso Editions, 1983.
Clifford, James. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature and Art. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Curtin, Philip D., Cross-Cultural Trade in World History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Bentley, Jerry H., Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre- Modern Times. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Green, Martin. Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of Empire. London: Routledge, 1980
Helms, Mary. Ulysses' Sail: An Ethnographic Odyssey of power, Knowledge, and Geographical Distance. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.
Hobsbawm, Eric. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Hobsbawm, Eric. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Keegan, John. A History of Warfare. New York: Vintage books, 1994
Liu, Xinru. Ancient India and Ancient China : Trade and Religious Exchanges Ad 1-600. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Mackenzie, John. Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of British Public Opinion 1880-1960. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986.
Mackenzie, John, ed. Imperialism and Popular Culture, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992.
Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Studies in Travel Writing and Transculturation. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Said, Edward. Orientalism. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978.
Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Knopf, distributed by Random House,1993
Stoler, Ann., and Cooper, Frederick. Eds. Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Wright, Donald R. The World and a Very Small Place in Africa. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
Bentley, Jerry. Shapes of World History in Twentieth Century Scholarship. Washington: American Historical Association, 1996.
Bentley, Jerry and Manning, Pat. "Forum," American Historical Review, Vol. 101, No. 3, June 1996, pp. 748-782.
Benton, Lauren. From the World-Systems Perspective to Institutional World History: Culture and Economy in Global Theory. Journal of World History. 7 (1996), 261-96.
Costello, Paul. World Historians and Their Goals: Twentieth-century answers to modernism. Northern Illinois University Press, 1994
Geyer, Michael and Charles Bright "World History in a Global Age." American Historical Review, vol. 100, 1995, 1034-60.
Gran, Peter. Beyond Eurocentrism: a New view of Modern World History. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996.
Green, William A. "Periodization in European and World History," Journal of World History, Vol 3. 1992.
Howard, Allen, Patrick Manning, and Peter Weiler, eds. "Structures and Consciousness in World History." Special issue of Radical History Review, no. 39 (1987).
Hodgson, Marshall G. S., Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam, and World History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Lewis, Martin W., and Karen E. Wigen. The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Mazlish, Bruce and Buutjens, Ralph. eds., Conceptualizing Global History. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993.
Mazlish, Bruce. "Comparing Global to World History," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 28. 1998, 385-95.
Pomper, Philip, Richard H. Elphick and Richard T. Vann, eds. "World Historians and Their Critics," theme issue 34. History and Theory (1995).
Wallerstein, Immanuel. "Culture as the Ideological Battleground of the Modern World-System," Theory, Culture and Society 7 (1990), 31-56.
Adas, Michael. Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.
Bulliet, Richard. The Camel and the Wheel. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990
Headrick, Daniel. The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Landes, David. The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present. London: Cambridge University Press 1970
Pacey, Arnold. Technology in world civilization: a thousand-year history. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.
Adas, Michael. Prophets of Rebellion: Millenarian Protest Movements against the European Colonial Order. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Blaut, J. M.,The Colonizers Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History. New York: Guilford Press, 1993.
Curtin, Philip. The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Fanon, Frantz. Studies in a Dying Colonialism. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1965.
Goldstone, Jack A. Revolutions and Rebellions in the Early Modern World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Green, Martin. Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of Empire. London: Routledge, 1980. See also under culture
Mackenzie, John. Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of British Public Opinion 1880-1960. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986. See also under culture
Mackenzie, John, ed. Imperialism and Popular Culture, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992. See also under culture
Mitchell, Timothy. Colonizing Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Northrup, David. Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1831-1922. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Studies in Travel Writing and Transculturation. New York: Routledge, 1992. See also under culture
Wills, John E. Jr. "Maritime Asia, 1500-1800: The Interactive Emergence of European Domination." American Historical Review, vol. 98 1993, 83-105.
Burton, Antoinette. Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian women and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915. University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Chaudhuri, N. and Strobel, M. eds. Western women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
Clancy-Smith, Julia Ann, Frances Gouda, eds. Domesticating the Empire: race, gender, and family life in French and Dutch colonialism . Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998.
Pierson, Ruth and Chaudhuri, Napur., eds. Nation, Empire, Colony: Historicizing Gender and Race. Indiana: University of Indiana Press, 1998.
Sinha, Mrinalini. Colonial Masculinity: the 'Manly' Englishman and 'Effeminate' Bengali in Nineteenth Century India. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995
Strobel, Margaret. European Women and the Second British Empire. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1991.
Wildenthal, Lora Joyce. Colonizers and Citizens : Bourgeois Women and the Woman Question in the German colonial movement, 1886-1914 . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
