Recently added articles from Journal of World History:
Herodotus and Sima Qian: History and the Anthropological Turn in Ancient Greece and Han China *.
Mar 01, 2008; ... This article presents a comparative investigation of Herodotus and Sima Qian with a focus on their ethnographies of nomadic peoples. Both historians included geography and ethnography in their works because their societies had reached a stage when it was no longer possible to write their ...
When Greek was an African language: the role of Greek culture in ancient and medieval Nubia *.
Mar 01, 2008; ... The Nubian encounter with Greek language began in the third century B.C.E. and lasted until the fifteenth century C.E. During the Hellenistic and Roman periods, Nubian interest in Greek was pragmatic, since the Greek language was used primarily as a diplomatic tool for dealing with ...
"Pygmies" of the Far North.
Mar 01, 2008; ... A recurring issue in discussions about the medieval Norse in Greenland is the name Skraeling(j)ar (Skraelings) for the natives whom the eleventh-century Norse encountered in North America. Grappling with this problem involves confronting the nineteenth-century assumption that medieval ...
Caught in the storm of progress: Timoteos Saprichian, Ethiopia, and the Modernity of Christianity *.
Mar 01, 2008; ... This article examines how European concepts of progress and race transformed relations between non-European Christians in the nineteenth century. The travel narrative of Timoteos Saprichian, an Armenian visitor to Ethiopia from the Ottoman Empire, suggests that some Orthodox Christians set ...
The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; ... The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History. By THOMAS T. ALLSEN. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 416 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Thomas Allsen's The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History is an ambitious and frequently insightful work of world history. It explores how "the hunt," ...
Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860. By HARVEY AMANI WHITFIELD. Burlington: University of Vermont Press, 2006. 200 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $2495 (paper). The African diasporas represent one of the most significant historical phenomena ...
The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; ... The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Gennanness. Edited by KRISTA O'DONNELL, RENATE BRIDENTHAL, and NANCY REAGIN. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. 336 PP. $75-00 (cloth); $2995 (paper). This book takes up a theme not common among historians of Germany: it argues ...
Pathways to the Present: U.S. Development and Its Consequences in the Pacific.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Pathways to the Present: U.S. Development and Its Consequences in the Pacific. By MANSEL c. BLACKFORD. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007. 288 pp. $48.00 (cloth). In this well-researched and tightly organized study, Mansel G. Blackford considers the importance of ...
European Integration 1950-2003: Superstate or New Market Economy?(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; ... European Integration 1950-2003: Superstate or New Market Economy? By JOHN GILLINGHAM. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 588 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). John Gillingham has written an entertaining and informative history of European integration. He is a ...
Weaving the rainbow: visions of color in world history.
Dec 01, 2007; ... Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his last work, Remarks on Colour, during a visit to Vienna in 1950 and while dying of cancer in Cambridge the following year. The slim book represented a return to a theme of his earliest writings, for he had dealt with the thorny problem of the logical structure ...
Exotic goods, popular consumption, and the standard of living: thinking about globalization in the early modern world.
Dec 01, 2007; ... In recent years a consensus has emerged in the relatively young subdiscipline of "world history" that the long-distance exchange of commodities, money, ideas, and tastes that we all recognize as an essential feature of the contemporary world is in fact an old phenomenon. Indeed, making ...
World history as ecumenical history?(FORUM: DEBATING THE WORLD HISTORY PROJECT)
Dec 01, 2007; ... THE CRITIQUE OF EUROCENTRISM In the future, world history or transcultural history (1) may come to experience more disputes between rival research approaches, political positions, and overall worldviews than most other branches of historiography. (2) The exploration of spaces ...
The problematic authority of (world) history.(FORUM: DEBATING THE WORLD HISTORY PROJECT)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Recent articles in this journal reflect fundamental differences of opinion on the intellectual and political roles of world history. Discussion of such abstract questions is often confined to periodicals such as History and Theory, on the assumption that pragmatic practitioners would ...
The Recurring Dark Ages: Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System Transformation.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2007; ... The Recurring Dark Ages: Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System Transformation. By SING C. CHEW. Lanham, Md.: AltaMira Press: 2006. 314 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper). The Recurring Dark Ages emerges squarely from the world-systems discourse of sociology, and in ...
Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History. By ALEXANDER WOODSIDE. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. 142 pp. $22.00 (cloth). Alexander Woodside has entered the ongoing discussion on the definition of social modernity by examining ...
Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital. By AMIYA KUMAR BAGCHI Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005. 432 pp. $65.00 (cloth). Amiya Kumar Bagchi's Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital is an ambitious work that ...
Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific: 1795-1850.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850. By SUJIT SIVASUNDARANI. Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories 7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 244 pp. $80.00 (cloth). Nature and the Godly Empire is an ambitious, ingenious, ...
Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World. By TONY BALLANTYNE. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. 230 pp. $74.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). This rich, diverse, and always compelling volume gives us a view into the changing nature of ...
The concept of "decisive battles" in world history.
Sep 01, 2007; ... Up until a few decades ago, battles were the historical events par excellence, and "decisive battles" served as axes around which many histories of the world revolved. Every educated person in the West was taught, for example, that the fate of Western civilization hung in the balance on ...
Global politics in the 1580s: one canal, twenty thousand cannibals, and an Ottoman plot to rule the world *.
Sep 01, 2007; ... Politics might fairly be called the final frontier of the world historian. Over the past several decades, no one would deny that truly impressive advances have been made in our ability to trace the growth of global interconnectedness over time. But most would also agree--with a few notable ...