This highly-acclaimed, bestselling textbook, quickly established itself as one of the leading
texts on the subject worldwide in its 1st edition. Now substantially revised and updated …

For almost 200 years, globalization has been seen as a positive development, albeit with
costs and benefits, and as progress and modernization, a broadening of humanity's scope …

While the Mediterranean is often considered a distinct, unified space, recent scholarship on
the early modern history of the sea has suggested that this perspective is essentially a …

Am Beginn dieser Arbeit stand die Frage, weshalb die Weltgesellschaft, trotz zunehmender
Einsicht in die Gefährdung der natürlichen Grundlagen, den Übergang zu einer …

The article discusses the parameters of the expanding field of global history and its wider
methodological implications. In a first step the author outlines the rising interest in …

" Empire and Catastrophe examines natural and anthropogenic disasters during the years of
decolonization in Algeria, Morocco, and France, and explores the ways in which …

Increasing worldwide concern for the globe in the second half of the twentieth century
culminated in the fervent debate around globalisation in the 1990s. That is a matter of public …

This chapter will situate the rise of secondary states during the first millennium BC in the
Southern Levant within an anthropological archaeology/global history context. Attention will …

The Arab people are in a state of moral and physical degradation that exceeds all our
civilized ideas. Theft and murder on the moral order, syphilis and mange on the material …

64 BARBARA WEINSTEIN research. A few privileged clusters of academics aside, most
historians routinely offer courses that involve large amounts of material and many historical …