Global History Bibliography
This list represents the starting point for the major field in Global History. Students
taking Global as a major field will need to meet with their regional advisor for minor
field recommendations (for Latin America, Asia, Africa or Atlantic World).
Abu-Lughod, Janet L. 1989. Before European Hegemony. New York: Oxford University
Press.
Austen, Ralph A. 2010. Trans-Sahara Africa in World History. New York: Oxford
University Press.
Bales, Kevin. 2004. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. Revised
with a new preface ed. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Bentley, Jerry H. 1993. Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges
in Pre-Modern Times. New York: Oxford University Press.
Braudel, Fernand. 1972. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of
Philip II. Translated by Siân Reynolds. New York: Harper & Row.
Cañizares-Esquerre, Jorge. 2001. How to Write the History of the New World: Histories,
Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Stanford:
Stanford University Press.
Chakrabarty, Dipesh, and American Council of Learned Societies. 2000. Provincializing
Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
University Press.
Crosby, Alfred W. 1986. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe,
900-1900. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Davis, Mike. 2002; 2001. Late Victorian Holocausts :El Niño Famines and the Making of
The Third World. Paperback ed. London; New York: Verso.
Dunn, Ross E. 2000. The New World History: A Teacher’s Companion. Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin’s.
Diamond, Jared M. 1997. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. 1st ed.
New York: W.W. Norton.
Frank, Andre Gunder. 1998. Reorient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley,
Calif.; London: University of California Press. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Gomez, Michael A. 2004. Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora (New
Approaches to African History).
Harrison, Lawrence E., and Samuel P. Huntington. 2000. Culture Matters: How Values
Shape Human Progress. 1st ed. New York: Basic Books.
Hodgson, Marshall G.S. 1974. The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World
Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago.
Ibn Khaldun. 2005. The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History. Abridged and edited
by N.J. Dawood. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Landes, David S. 1998. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and
Some So Poor. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton.
Lewis, Martin W., and Kären Wigen. 1997. The Myth of Continents: A Critique of
Metageography. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Lindsay, Lisa A. 2007. Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade. Upper
Saddle River, NJ.: Prentice Hall.
Marks, Robert. 2002. The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological
Narrative. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield.
McNeill, William 1991. The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community.
Includes “Retrospective Essay.” Chicago: University of Chicago.
Mignolo, Walter D. 2003. The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality,
and Colonization. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Northrup, David. 2002. Africa’s Discovery of Europe, 1450-1850. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Pomeranz, Kenneth. 2000. The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the
Modern World Economy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Scott, James C. 1998. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human
Condition Have Failed. Yale agrarian studies. New Haven Conn.: Yale University
Press.
Spengler, Oswald. 1991. The Decline of the West: An Abridged Edition. Translated by
Charles Francis Atkinson. New York: Oxford University Press.
Stavrianos, Leften S. 1991. A Global History: From Prehistory to the Present.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
Toynbee, Arnold J. 1987. A Study of History. 2 volumes: 1-VI; VII-X. New York: Oxford
University Press.
Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice. 2004. World-Systems Analysis: An introduction.
Durham: Duke University Press.
Wong, Roy Bin. 1997. China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of
European Experience. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.