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Publication ArchivePlease see below for articles, books, and conferences of enduring interest. In that light, some useful background: Global History, or rather "New Global History", to distinguish it from traditional world history, starts from the contemporary phenomenon of globalization, seen as a process, and attempts to understand it from an historical perspective (which it adds to the other ways of dealing with the subject); in adopting this perspective, the new global historian goes as far back into the past as needed to understand the particular aspect of the subject under investigation. ArticlesFor past articles in the peer-reviewed electronic journal, New Global Studies, click here. The journal's founding editors are Nayan Chanda, Akira Iriye, and Bruce Mazlish. The managing editor is Ken Weisbrode. “Ptolemy's Revenge: A Critique of Historical Cartography,” Coordinates. Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association, American Library Association, 08/29/2005, by Wolf Schäfer. Also by Wolf Schäfer, "How to Approach Global Present, Local Pasts, and Canon of the Globe," in Soma Hewa and Darwin H.Stapleton, eds., Globalization, Philanthropy, and Civil Society: Toward a New Political Culture in the Twenty-First Century (New York: Springer, 2005), 15-31. Sven Beckert (Harvard) published the article, "From Tuskegee to Togo: The Problem of Freedom in the Empire of Cotton," in the Journal of American History 92: September, 2005. In Current Sociology, Vol 53 No 1 (January 2005), 93-111, Professor Bruce Mazlish has an article, "The Global and the Local," which then gave rise to a further dialogue on the subject. The counterpart of Current Sociology in Russia has asked whether it could republish the article in a Russian translation, thus indicating once again the global interest in globalization.. "The Making of English National Identity," November 2004, by Krishan Kumar Publications from the conference on "Globalization and Childhood" held at George Mason University, 19 to 21 March 2004:
The papers were published in the Journal of Social History. ‘Between American
and Cosmopolitan Democracy: Understanding American Oppostition to the
International Criminal Court’ by Jason Ralph, in International
Relations, Vol. 17, #2, "Early Globalization and the Slave Trade," YaleGlobal, 9 May 2003, by Robert Harms. "Comparing Modern Japan: Are There More Comparisons to Make?," July 2002, by Raymond Grew. An earlier version of this essay appeared in Japan in a Comparative
Perspective, Hidehiro Sonoda and S.N. Eisenstadt, eds. (Kyoto: International
Research Center for Japanese Studies, 1999) and this essay was prepared
for publication by the Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien, Tokyo,
in 2002. "The New Global History," by Bruce Mazlish (English, Adobe PDF Format). This article has appeared as yet only in German, as "Die Neue Globalgeschichte," in Zeitschrift fur Weltgeschichte, 3, 1, 2002, 9-22. "A Tour Of Globalization," by Bruce Mazlish (Adobe PDF Format). "On history becoming History: World History and New Global History," by Bruce Mazlish (English, Adobe PDF Format).This article has appeared as yet only in Spanish, as "La historia se hace Historia: la Historia Mundial y la Nueva Historia Global," in the Annual, Memoria y Civilizacion, 4, 2001, 5-17. "Japanese Hip-Hop and the
Globalization of Popular Culture", 2001, by Ian Condry. BooksJason Ralph's project on the International Criminal Court culminated with the publication of Defending the Society of States. Why America opposes the International Criminal Court and its Vision of World Society with OUP in 2007. 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. Global Inc., a 163 page historical atlas of the Multinational Corporation, has been published by New Press. Copies can be ordered from the Press at $24.95. This atlas is one result of the Conference on Mapping the MNCs, part of the overall NGH initiative. Global Inc. is in its second printing. Another outcome is a volume of selected essays from the Conference, entitled Leviathans: Multinational Corporations and the New Global History, ed. Alfred Chandler and Bruce Mazlish. It has been published by Cambridge University Press. Palgrave Advances in World History, ed. by Marnie Hughes-Warrington has been published; its 12 chapters should be of much interest to those concerned with the spectrum running from world history to global and new global history. The Global History Reader, ed. by Akira Iriye and Bruce Mazlish, was published at the beginning of 2005 by Routledge. As part of its work, the NGH initiative is setting 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, and edited by E. Morss, just now available. They can be ordered directly from Andrew Cohn, 60 State Street, Boston, MA 02109. Akira Iriye, Global Community, The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002). A lucid and expertly informed treatment of how international organizations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have figured in the construction of a global community. Globalization in World History, ed.
A. G. Hopkins (London: Pimlico, 2002) serves as an excellent bridge
between previous globalizations and new global history. An American
edition has been published by Norton. Mehdi Mozaffari (eds), Globalization and Civilization (New York: Routledge, 2002). Uniquely, critically interrogates the concept of 'civilization' by asking whether it is still valid in the globalized world economy of the twenty-first century. Includes 'Civilization and the 21th Century' by Robert W. Cox, 'The first normative global revolution?' by Richard Falk, 'Civilizations and World Order' by Mehdi Mozaffari, 'Standards of civilization today' by Gerrit W. Gong and case studies on Europe, the Arab world, Islam, China and India. William Keylor, A World of Nations: The International Order Since
1945, (Oxford University Press, 2002).
Keylor is a Professor of History and of International Relations and
the Director of the International History Institute at Boston University. Bruce Mazlish's book, The Uncertain Sciences (Yale, 1998), stands as a shaping background for thinking about globalization and global history. It has been republished as a paperback, with a new Introduction, by Transaction Publishers. ConferencesWolf Schäfer founded The Center for Global History at Stony Brook University in 2003. The Center is currently sponsoring a conference series on “The Global Futures of World Regions.” The first two conferences—“The New Europe” (April 2005) and “The New America” (September 2005)—were held in Stony Brook (in cooperation with the Center for Italian Studies) and Berlin (in cooperation with the leading Social Science Research Center in Germany). The next two conferences—“The New Asias” (September 2006) and “The New Third Worlds” (September 2007)—were held in Seoul (in cooperation with the Korean Sociological Association) and again Stony Brook, respectively. A Globalization and Childhood Conference was held at George Mason University, 19 to 21 March 2004. The papers were published in the Journal of Social History, two of which are noted above. The Conference as a whole and these papers open a new and exciting connection between the history of childhood and the New Global History perpective. A Conference on New Global History and the City took place, January 9-12, 2003, in St. Petersburg, Russia. |