… Africa, repositioning the continent in world history. The Afro-Asian connection disrupts Eurocentric
narratives of global history by demonstrating independent transoceanic and …

The January 2001 broadcast of Ken Burns’s documentary film Jazz on public television
dramatically elevated the profile of jazz music. Dedicated jazz aficionados hailed the program for …

THIS IS THE presumptuous title of a paper I delivered for what I believe was the first-ever
session on “Gay and Lesbian History/L’histoire de l’homo-sexualité” at the International …

This article presents an archival history of the relationship between the US Ford Foundation
(FF), and Brazil’s preeminent business school, EAESP (the São Paulo School of Business …

The Jewish Labor Bund was one of the major political forces in early twentieth-century Eastern
Europe. But the decades after the Second World War were years of enormous difficulty for …

… a global and transnational history of rocketry and space travel. Since a global history would
… With a new approach grounded in a global history of spaceflight, we might learn much more …

The studies offered in this volume contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism
and methodological nationalism. Using literature from diverse regions, epochs and …

… Global perspective was a first step toward global history; but … global history upon western
history, the new social history upon the old political history, history from below upon history from …

… We now must aim to conceptualize and produce a truly global history of the church. As we
proceed, we must assure that our efforts incorporate certain essential characteristics, and we …

… The new approach to building toward the future that we advocate here goes about things
in a fundamentally different manner. It first outlines a number of possible trajectories from the …