Readings
Bayly, C. A. The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons. Wiley-Blackwell, 2004. ISBN: 9780631236160.
Questions
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The craft of the historian: How does Bayly combine a chronological narrative with a thematic approach to the history of the nineteenth century? In other words, why does he alternate chronological and thematic chapters, and what do you think of this approach?
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The message of the historian: What kind of global history can one write in the post-Eurocentric world of the early twenty-first century? What happens when you abandon a singular focus on European dominance, and on purely economic models of historical causation, whether Marxist, “modernizationist,” or some other variant?
Partial Bibliography
McNeill, William. A World History. Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780195116168.
Braudel, Fernand. Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century. Translated by Siân Reynolds. 3 volumes. University of California Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780520081147; 9780520081154; 9780520081161.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. The Modern World-System. 4 volumes. University of California Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780520267572; 9780520267589; 9780520267596; 9780520267619.
Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780195067743.
McNeill, John R., and William H. McNeill. The Human Web: A Bird’s-Eye View of World History. W. W. Norton, 2003. ISBN: 9780965739658.
Bailyn, Bernard. Atlantic History: Concept and Contours. Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780674016880.
Elliott, John H. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830. Yale University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780300123999.
Armitage, David. The Declaration of Independence: A Global History. Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780674030329.
Greene, Jack P., and Philip D. Morgan. Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780195320343.
Armitage, David, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. ISBN: 9780230580473.
