Many favor cultural and environmental explanations of the nineteenth-century economic divergence between Europe and the rest of the world. This book takes a different tack. It argues that political differences which crystallized well before 1800 were responsible both for China’s…
In recent years, historians across the world have become increasingly interested in transnational and global approaches to the past. However, the debates surrounding this new border-crossing movement have remained limited in scope as theoretical exchanges on the tasks, responsib…
Sachsenmaier examines both the transnational dynamics and networks of global history through case studies on China, Germany and the United States. By extending these local and global connections and integrating approaches to the subject, he demonstrates how historians can enrich…
Discusses global historical research as a global and diverse movement. Case studies focus on China, Germany and the United States.
"It is no longer news that the Western world is in a crisis, a crisis that has spread far beyond its point of origin and become global in nature. In 1927, René Guénon responded to this crisis with the closest thing he ever wrote to a manifesto and 'call-to-action'. The Crisis of…
Globalism is often discussed using abstract terms, such as 'networks' or 'flows' and usually in relation to recent history. Global Design History moves us past this limited view of globalism, broadening our sense of this key term in history and theory. Individual chapters focu…
"A Short History of Progress is nothing less than a concise history of the world since Neanderthal times, elegantly written, brilliantly conceived, and stunningly clear in its warning to us now. Wright shows how human beings have a way of walking into "progress traps," beginning…
"A Short History of Progress is nothing less than a concise history of the world since Neanderthal times, elegantly written, brilliantly conceived, and stunningly clear in its warning to us now. Wright shows how human beings have a way of walking into "progress traps," beginning…
"Maps of Time opens with the origins of the universe - of the stars and the galaxies, of the sun and the solar system, including Earth - and conducts readers through the evolution of the planet before human habitation. It surveys the development of human society from the Paleoli…