The Future of the World is devoted to the intriguing field of study which emerged after World
War Two, futurism or futurology. Jenny Andersson explains how futurist scholars and …

Social scientists have long resisted the radical ideas known as postcolonial thought, while
postcolonial scholars have critiqued the social sciences for their Euro-centric focus …

Global history has come under attack. It is charged with neglecting national history and the
'small spaces' of the past, with being an elite globalist project made irrelevant by the anti …

For the participation in this enterprise at the conference, or later, of Thomas Bender, Manu
Bhagavan, Federico Finchelstein, Suzanne Marchand, Walter Mignolo, Timothy Roberts …

This essay explores the consequences for historians' research of the twinned transnational
and digitized turns. The accelerating digitization of primary and secondary sources and the …

Between the early seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, major European political
thinkers first began to look outside their national borders and envisage a world of …

Since the birth of mass political movements, European nationalists have lamented the failure
of their constituents to respond to the siren song of national awakening. This article explores …

In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-
class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad …

Cross-border studies have become attractive for a number of fields, including international
migration, studies of material and cultural globalization, and history. While cross-border …

Based on the case of the ILO, both as an actor and driver of international social policy, this
collection explores the internationalization process of social rights, in a number of national …