Global History

Reading Lists

• Theories of International Relations
• Transnationalism - Reft
• The US and the World in the Nineteenth Century - Perl-Rosenthal

Book Summaries

• Arjun Appadurai. Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996).
• Giovanni Arrighi. The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times (1994).
• Laura Briggs. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico (2002).
• Faisal Devji. The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (2008).
• Friedmann, J. The World City Hypothesis. Development and Change, 17(1) , 69–83. (2008).
• David Harvey. Consciousness and the Urban Experience (1985).
• David Harvey. A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005).
• E. J. Hobsbawm. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (1990).
• Michael J. Hogan. America in the World: The Historiography of US Foreign Relations since 1941 (1996).
• Kilminster, R. Globalization as an Emergent Concept. from: The Limits of Globalization: Cases and Arguments. London: Routledge, 257–283. (1997).
• Anthony D. King. The Bungalow: The Production of a Global Culture (1984).
• Paul A. Kramer. The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines (2006).
• Georges Lefebvre. The Coming of the French Revolution (2005).
• Martin W. Lewis & Kären E. Wigen. The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (1997).
• Peter Marcuse and Ronald Van Kempen, Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order? (2000).
• Peter Marcuse & Ronald van Kempen. Of States and Cities: The Partitioning of Urban Space (2002).
• Adam M. McKeown. Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders (2008).
• J. R. McNeill, John Robert McNeill, & Paul Kennedy. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (2001).
• N. Dos Santos Oliveira. Favelas and Ghettos: Race and Class in Rio de Janeiro and New York City. Latin American Perspectives, 71–89. (1996).
• Robert B. Potter. Cities and Development in the Third World (1990).
• Jeremy Prestholdt. Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization (2008).
• Ananya Roy. City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender And The Politics Of Poverty (2002).
• Saskia Sassen. The Mobility of Labor and Capital: A Study in International Investment and Labor Flow (1988).
• Saskia Sassen. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. (1991).
• Allison L. Sneider. Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929 (2008).
• Albert Soboul. The Sans-Culottes: The Popular Movement and Revolutionary Government, 1793-1794 (1968).
• Tamara Sonn. Interpreting Islam: Bandali Jawzi’s Islamic Intellectual History (1996).
• Jeremi Suri. Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente (2003).
• Timothy Tackett. Becoming a Revolutionary: The Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture (1996).
• Immanuel Wallerstein. The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World (2003).
• Odd Arne Westad. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (2005).
• Zimmerman, Andrew. Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South (2010).