Conceptions and General Methodological Issues

Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History
Bruce Mazlish and Ralph Buultjens, eds., Conceptualizing Global History
David Christian, Maps of Time
H.G. Wells, The Outline of History
J.R. McNeill and William H. McNeill, The Human Web
Jerry H. Bentley, Shapes of World History in Twentieth-Century Scholarship
Marshall G.S. Hodgson, Rethinking World History
Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West
Philip Pomper et al., eds., World History
Ross E. Dunn, ed., The New World History
William H. McNeill, The Rise of the West

Beyond States and Societies: Alternative Conceptions of Social Space

Anthony Reid, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce
Barry Cunliffe, Facing the Ocean
Brett L. Walker, The Conquest of Ainu Lands
Bruce L. Batten, To the Ends of Japan
Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World
Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History
Jerry H. Bentley et al., eds., Interactions
John Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World
K.N. Chaudhuri, Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean
K.N. Chaudhuri, Asia Before Europe
Martin W. Lewis and Kären E. Wigen, The Myth of Continents
Owen Lattimore, Inner Asian Frontiers of China
Richard Eaton, The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier
Richard White, The Middle Ground
Thomas Bender, ed., Rethinking American History in a Global Age
Thomas J. Barfield, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce
Walter Prescott Webb, The Great Frontier

Modernization Analysis

Alfred W. Crosby, The Measure of Reality
Carlo Cipolla, Guns, Sails, and Empires
Cyril E. Black, The Dynamics of Modernization
Cyril E. Black, ed., Comparative Modernization
David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
E.L. Jones, Growth Recurring
E.L. Jones, The European Miracle, 3rd ed.
Frederick Cooper ed., International Development and the Social Sciences
Geoffrey Parker, The Military Revolution
John A. Hall, Powers and Liberties
Michael Mann, Sources of Social Power
Peter N. Stearns, The Industrial Revolution in World History
Reinhard Bendix, Nation-Building and Citizenship, enlarged ed.
Reinhard Bendix, Kings or People
Rondo Cameron, A Concise Economic History of the World
W.W. Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth, 3rd ed.
W.W. Rostow, How It All Began

Dependency and World-System Analysis

Andre Gunder Frank, World Accumulation
Andre Gunder Frank, Dependent Accumulation and Underdevelopment
Andre Gunder Frank and B. Gills, The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?
Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall, Rise and Demise
Daniel Chirot, Social Change in the Twentieth Century
Eric Wolf, Europe and the People without History
Fernand Braudel, The Perspective of the World
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System, 3 vols. to date
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Essential Wallerstein
Immanuel Wallerstein, Historical Capitalism
Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Before European Hegemony
L.S. Stavrianos, Global Rift
Robert A. Denemark, et al., eds., World System History
Thomas D. Hall, ed., A World-Systems Reader
Thomas Shannon, Introduction to the World-System Perspective, 2nd ed.
Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Beyond Modernization and World Systems

A.G. Hopkins, ed., Globalization in History
Andre Gunder Frank, ReORIENT
Arnold Pacey, Technology in World Civilization
C.A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World
Jack Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World
Jack Goody, The East in the West
James M. Blaut, The Colonizer's Model of the World
James M. Blaut, Eight Eurocentric Historians
Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence
R. Bin Wong, China Transformed
Robert B. Marks, The Origins of the Modern World
Stephen F. Dale, Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade
Victor Lieberman, Strange Parallels
Victor Lieberman, ed., Beyond Binary Histories

Cross-cultural Trade in Pre-modern Times

Angela Schottenhammer, ed., Emporium of the World: Maritime Quanzhou
Barry Cunliffe, Greeks, Romans and Barbarians
George F. Hourani, Arab Seafaring in the Indian Ocean, rev. ed
J. Innes Miller, The Spice Trade of the Roman Empire
Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Before European Hegemony
K.N. Chaudhuri, Asia before Europe
K.N. Chaudhuri, Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean
Kenneth Hall, Maritime Trade and State Development in Early Southeast Asia
Liu Xinru, Ancient India and Ancient China
Liu Xinru, Silk and Religion
Michael Rowlands et al., eds., Centre and Periphery in the Ancient World
Philip D. Curtin, Cross-Cultural Trade in World History
Richard Hodges, Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe
S. Ratnagar, Encounters: The Westerly Trade of the Harappa Civilization
S.D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society
Tansen Sen, Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade
Vimala Begley and Richard Daniel de Puma, eds., Rome and India
Ying-shih Yü, Trade and Expansion in Han China

Trade and Empire in the Early Modern World

Anthony Reid, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce
Holden Furber, Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient
James D. Tracy, ed., The Rise of Merchant Empires
James D. Tracy, ed., The Political Economy of Merchant Empires
Jonathan Israel, Dutch Primacy in World Trade
K.N. Chaudhuri, Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company
Leonard Blussé, Strange Company
Leonard Blussé and F.S. Gaastra, eds., Companies and Trade
Leonard Blussé and F.S. Gaastra, eds., On the Eighteenth Century as a Category of Asian History
M.A.P. Meilink-Roelofsz, Asian Trade and European Influence
Michael Pearson, The Portuguese in India
Om Prakash, The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal
Philip D. Curtin, The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex
Philip D. Curtin, Cross-Cultural Trade in World History
R. Ptak and D. Rothermund, eds., Emporia, Commodities, and Entrepreneurs
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, The Portuguese Empire in Asia
Stephen F. Dale, Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade

Modern Imperialism

Ann Laura Stoler, Race and the Education of Desire
Anthony Pagden, Lords of All the World
Bernard S. Cohn, Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge
Daniel R. Headrick, The Tentacles of Progress
Daniel R. Headrick, The Tools of Empire
Dominic Lieven, Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals
Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler, eds., Tensions of Empire
Jürgen Osterhammel, Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview
Laura Hostetler, Qing Colonial Enterprise
Louise Young, Japan's Total Empire
Margaret Strobel, European Women and the Second British Empire
Michael Adas, Prophets of Rebellion
Michael Adas, Machines as the Measure of Men
Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts
N. Chaudhuri and M. Strobel, eds., Western Women and Imperialism
Peter C. Perdue, China Marches West
Philip D. Curtin, The World and the West
Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power

Postcolonial Perspectives

Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory
Arif Dirlik, The Postcolonial Aura
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 2nd ed.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe
Edward W. Said, Orientalism
Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism
Gyan Prakash, ed., After Colonialism
James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture
James Clifford and G. Marcus, eds., Writing Culture
Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes
Nicholas Thomas, Colonialism's Culture
Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic
Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, eds., Selected Subaltern Studies
Stevan Harrell, ed., Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers
Vicente L. Rafael, Contracting Colonialism

Migrations and Diasporas

Adam McKeown, Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change
David Eltis, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas
David Northrup, Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism
Dirk Hoerder, Cultures in Contact
Hugh Tinker, A New System of Slavery
Irving Rouse, Migrations in Prehistory
J.P. Mallory, In Search of the Indo-Europeans
J.P. Mallory and Victor Mair, The Tarim Mummies
John K. Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World
Joseph E. Harris, ed.x, The Black Atlantic
Mechal Sobel, The World They Made Together
Michael T. Conniff and T.J. Davis, Africans in the Americas
P.C. Emmer, ed., Colonialism and Migration
Patrick Manning, Migration in World History
Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic
Richard Price, First-Time
Richard Price, Alabi's World
Robin Cohen, Global Diasporas

Cross-cultural Encounters

Anne Salmond, Two Worlds
Anne Salmond, Between Worlds
Arnold Pacey, Technology in World Civilization
Edward H. Schafer, The Golden Peaches of Samarkand
Edward H. Schafer, The Vermilion Bird
François Hartog, The Mirror of Herodotus
Greg Dening, Islands and Beaches
Greg Dening, Beach Crossings
James Axtell, The European and the Indian
James Axtell, The Invasion Within
Jean and John Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution
Jerry H. Bentley, Old World Encounters
Martin Bernal, Black Athena
Mary W. Helms, Ulysses' Sail
Richard W. Bulliet, The Camel and the Wheel
Stuart B. Schwartz, ed., Implicit Understandings
Walter Burkert, The Orientalizing Revolution

Biological Exchanges and Environmental Change

Alfred W. Crosby, Ecological Imperialism
Alfred W. Crosby, The Columbian Exchange
Andrew Watson, Agricultural Innovation in the Early Islamic World
Charles L. Redman, Human Impact on Ancient Environments
Clive Ponting, A Green History of the World
David Christian, Maps of Time
David Henige, Numbers from Nowhere
Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire
Donald Worster, ed., The Ends of the Earth
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel
John F. Richards, The Unending Frontier
John R. McNeill, Something New Under the Sun
Noble David Cook, Born to Die
Sheldon Watts, Epidemics and History
Timothy H. Silver, A New Face on the Countryside
William Cronon, Changes in the Land
William H. McNeill, Plagues and Peoples