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| The New Global History Our Site News (in brief) The Toynbee Prize Foundation awarded its 2008 prize to Professor William H. McNeill in a ceremony taking place on April 25, at the Harvard Faculty Club. Professor McNeill described the inspiration given to him by Arnold Toynbee and the importance of "Big History." Professor Marshall Goldman has published a new book, Petrostate. Putin, Power and the New Russia, published by Oxford University Press. Professors Sven Beckert and Dominic Sachsenmaier held a conference on global history at Harvard University on February 7-9, 2008. Titled "Global History, Globally" it brought together global historians from all parts of the world. The conference was sponsored jointly by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Duke University. For more information, see its website. Our peer-reviewed journal, New Global Studies has been launched by the Berkeley Electronic Press. Another new journal, Global History Review has been launched in China by the History Department at Capital Normal University. For more information, contact Professor Sun Yue at suny_wood@yahoo.com. The Paradox of a Global USA, ed. by Bruce Mazlish, Nayan Chanda and Kenneth Weisbrode, is now available from the Stanford University Press. Nayan Chanda's own book, Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, and Adventurers Shaped Globalization, is also now available from Yale University Press. Bruce Mazlish's book, The Uncertain Sciences (Yale, 1998), stands as a shaping background for thinking about globalization and global history. It has just been republished as a paperback, with a new Introduction, by Transaction Publishers. The March/April 2007 issue of Historically Speaking has a forum, "Thinking About Empire," which should be of interest to those concerned about world history, global history, and globalization. Routledge published The New Global History by Bruce Mazlish last September. The paperback is $30.95, but a discount of 20% can be obtained by ordering the book, saying that you are taking advantage of the discount on the NGH web site. Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Tufts University) launched a new seminar series in Global History, in cooperation with the Boston Area Global History Consortium. Dominic Sachsenmaier accepted the position in East Asian and Trans-national History at Duke University, starting last September. Along with Sebastian Conrad, Dominic has edited Competing Visions of World Order. Global Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s, which has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. As part of its work, the NGH initiative has set up a New Global History Press, which is republishing volumes in the Global History Series (previously published by Westview Press) as well as additional titles. Three republished are now available:
There is also a volume, New Global History and the City, based on the Saint Petersburg conference, now available. They can be ordered directly from Andrew Cohn. 60 State Street, Boston, MA 02109. Wolf Schäfer, a member of the New Global History, is the founding director of “The Center for Global History” at Stony Brook University. The center, which is located in Stony Brook’s Department of History, is an experiment in thinking big and acting small along the lines of the Global History Initiative. After over a decade of international conferences, scholarly books, articles, and debates, this new venue is one of the welcome signs of progress towards the larger goal of institutionalizing the subfield of global history. Another new associate who has joined the New Global History Initiative
is Peter N. Stearns, Provost of George Mason University.
A distinguished historian, he is also the editor of Journal of Social
History. For complete list of new associates, please visit our
News section. Featured Articles:
Publications from the conference on Globalization and Childhood held at George Mason University, 19 to 21 March 2004:
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