Global historical sociology

Bringing together historical sociologists from Sociology and International Relations, this collection lays out the international, transnational, and global dimensions of social change. It reveals the shortcomings of existing scholarship and argues for a deepening of the 'third wave' of historical sociology through a concerted treatment of transnational and global dynamics as they unfold in and through time. The volume combines theoretical interventions with in-depth case studies. Each chapter moves beyond binaries of 'internalism' and 'externalism, ' offering a relational approach to a particular thematic: the rise of the West, the colonial construction of sexuality, the imperial origins of state formation, the global origins of modern economic theory, the international features of revolutionary struggles, and more. By bringing this sensibility to bear on a wide range of issue-areas, the volume lays out the promise of a truly global historical sociology.

Introduction : For a global historical sociology / Julian Go and George Lawson -- Real mythic histories : circulatory networks and state-centrism / Matthew Norton -- States, armies, and wars in global context / Tarak Barkawi -- A global historical sociology of revolution / George Lawson -- Following "the deeds of men" : race, "the global," and international relations / Zine Magubane -- The crisis of Europe and colonial amnesia : freedom struggles in the Atlantic biotope / Robbie Shilliam -- Sex, gender, and sexuality in colonial modernity : towards a sociology of webbed connectivities / Vrushali Patil -- The global, the historical, and the social in the making of capitalism / Ho-Fung Hung -- The influence of trade with Asia on British economic theory and practice / Emily Erikson -- Asian incorporation and the collusive dynamics of Western "expansion" in the early modern world / Andrew Phillips -- Worlding the rise of captialism : the multicivilizational roots of modernity / John M. Hobson -- Conclusion : Global historical sociology and transnational history : history and theory against eurocentrism / Andrew Zimmerman.