Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-cc8bf7c57-fxdwj Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-11T10:28:40.039Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Part IV - World regions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

J. R. McNeill
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
Kenneth Pomeranz
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
Get access

Summary

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Chapter
Information
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Further reading

Abrahamian, Ervand. A History of Modern Iran. Cambridge University Press, 2008.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Barraclough, Geoffrey. An Introduction to Contemporary History. Baltimore, md: Penguin, 1967.Google Scholar
Bayly, C. A. The Birth of the Modern World, 1780–1914. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.Google Scholar
Brown, L. Carl. “The Middle East: patterns of change 1947–1987.” Middle East Journal 41:1 (Winter 1987), 2639.Google Scholar
Clancy-Smith, Julia, and Smith, Charles D.. The Modern Middle East and North Africa: A History in Documents. Oxford University Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Danielsen, Albert L. The Evolution of OPEC. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.Google Scholar
Esposito, John L., ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, rev. edn. Oxford University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Gelvin, James L. The Modern Middle East: A History, 3rd edn. Oxford University Press, 2011.Google Scholar
Findley, Carter Vaughn. Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History, 1789–2007. New Haven, ct: Yale University Press, 2011.Google Scholar
Hefner, Robert W., ed. The New Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 6: Muslims and Modernity: Culture and Society Since 1800. Cambridge University Press, 2010.Google Scholar
Ismael, Tareq Y. The Middle East in World Politics: A Study in Contemporary International Relations. Syracuse University Press, 1974.Google Scholar
Issawi, Charles. An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.Google Scholar
Keddie, Nikki R. Women in the Middle East: Past and Present. Princeton University Press, 2007.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kurzman, Charles. Democracy Denied, 1905–1915: Intellectuals and the Fate of Democracy. Cambridge, ma: Harvard University Press, 2008.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lapidus, Ira M. Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History. Cambridge University Press, 2012.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lewis, Bernard. What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.Google Scholar
Macfie, A. L. The Eastern Question, 1774–1923, rev. edn. London: Longman, 1996.Google Scholar
Mitchell, Timothy. Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. London: Verso, 2013.Google Scholar
Owen, Roger, and Pamuk, Şevket. A History of Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, ma: Harvard University Press, 1999.Google Scholar
Quataert, Donald. The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922, 2nd edn. Cambridge University Press, 2005.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Richards, Alan, and Waterbury, John. A Political Economy of the Middle East. Boulder, co: Westview Press, 2008.Google Scholar
Robertson, Roland. “Glocalization: time–space and homogeneity–heterogeneity.” In Featherstone, Mike, Lash, Scott, and Robertson, Roland, eds., Global Modernities. London: Sage, 1995, pp. 2544.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Robinson, Francis. The New Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 5: The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance. Cambridge University Press, 2010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rogan, Eugene. The Arabs: A History. New York: Perseus, 2009.Google Scholar
Tucker, Judith. Gender and Islamic History. Washington: American Historical Association, 1993.Google Scholar
United Nations Human Settlement Program (UN-Habitat). The State of Arab Cities 2012: Challenges of Urban Transition. Nairobi: UN, 2012.Google Scholar
United States Department of Commerce. Census 2000 Brief: The Arab Population: 2000. Washington, DC: U.S. Census Bureau, December 2003.Google Scholar
Voll, John Obert. “Foundations for renewal and reform: Islamic movements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.” In Esposito, John L., ed., The Oxford History of Islam. Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 509547.Google Scholar
Voll, John Obert. “The Middle East in world history.” In Bentley, Jerry H., ed., The Oxford Handbook of World History. Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 437454.Google Scholar

Further reading

Arrighi, Giovanni. Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-first Century. London: Verso, 2007.Google Scholar
Arrighi, Giovanni, Hamashita, Takeshi, and Selden, Mark, eds. The Resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2003.Google Scholar
Bagchi, Amiya Kumar. Perilous Passage: Mankind through the Global Ascendancy of Capital, c. 1492–2003. Lanham, md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.Google Scholar
Beeson, Mark. Regionalism and Globalization in East Asia: Politics, Security and Economic Development. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.Google Scholar
Blussé, Leonard. Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans. Cambridge, ma: Harvard University Press, 2008.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cooke, Nola, and Tana, Li, eds. Water Frontier: Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750–1880. Lanham, md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.Google Scholar
Cumings, Bruce. Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power. New Haven, ct: Yale University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Duara, Prasenjit. The Global and Regional in China’s Nation-Formation. London: Routledge, 2008.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Duara, Prasenjit, ed. Decolonization: Perspectives from Now and Then. London: Routledge, 2004.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Faure, David. China and Capitalism: A History of Business Enterprise in Modern China. Hong Kong University Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Frank, Andre Gunder. ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley, ca: University of California Press, 1998.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gipoloux, François. The Asian Mediterranean: Port Cities and Trading Networks in China, Japan and Southeast Asia, 13th–21st Century. Northampton, ma: Edward Elgar, 2011.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gordon, Andrew. A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present. Oxford University Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Gunn, Geoffrey C. First Globalization: The Eurasian Exchange, 1500–1800. Lanham, md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.Google Scholar
Hamashita, Takeshi, China, East Asia and the Global Economy: Regional and Historical Perspectives, ed. Grove, Linda and Selden, Mark. London: Routledge, 2008.Google Scholar
Hamilton, Gary. Commerce and Capitalism in Chinese Societies. London: Routledge, 2006.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hayami, Akira, Saitō, Osamu, and Toby, Ronald, eds. The Economic History of Japan, 1600–1990, 3 vols. Oxford University Press, 2004.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Katzenstein, Peter J. A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium. Ithaca, ny: Cornell University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Latham, A. J. H., and Kawakatsu, Heita, eds. Asia Pacific Dynamism, 1550–2000. London: Routledge, 2000.Google Scholar
Marks, Robert. China: Its Environment and History. Lanham, md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.Google Scholar
Marks, Robert. The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century, 2nd edn. Lanham, md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.Google Scholar
Matthews, John. Greening of Capitalism: How Asia is Driving the Next Great Tranformation. Stanford University Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Myers, Ramon H., and Peattie, Mark R., eds. The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895–1945. Princeton University Press, 1984.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Perry, Elizabeth, and Selden, Mark, eds. Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance, 3rd edn. London: Routledge, 2010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton University Press, 2000.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pomeranz, Kenneth, and Topik, Stephen. The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present, 3rd edn. Armonk, ny: M. E. Sharpe, 2013.Google Scholar
Reid, Anthony. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450–1680, 2 vols. New Haven, ct: Yale University Press, 1988 and 1993.Google Scholar
Reid, Anthony, ed. The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies: Responses to Modernity in the Diverse States of Southeast Asia and Korea, 1750–1900. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent, and Wong, R. Bin. Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe. Cambridge, ma: Harvard University Press, 2011.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Saaler, Sven, and Szpilman, Christopher W. A., eds. Pan-Asianism: A Documentary History, 2 vols. Lanham, md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.Google Scholar
Sugihara, Kaoru, ed. Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850–1949. Oxford University Press, 2005.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wade, Geoff. Asian Expansions: The Historical Experiences of Polity Expansion in Asia. London: Routledge, 2014.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wang, Dong. The United States and China: A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Lanham, md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.Google Scholar
Wong, R. Bin. China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience. Ithaca, ny: Cornell University Press, 1997.Google Scholar

Further reading

Acree, William G., and Espitia, Juan Carlos González, eds. Building Nineteenth-century Latin America: Re-Routed Cultures, Identities, and Nations. Nashville, tn: Vanderbilt University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Barr-Melej, Patrick. Reforming Chile: Cultural Politics, Nationalism, and the Rise of the Middle Class. Chapel Hill, nc: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Beezley, William H. Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico, 2nd edn. Lincoln, ne, and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.Google Scholar
Benjamin, Thomas. La Revolución: Mexico’s Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History. Austin, tx: University of Texas Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Bergquist, Charles. Labor in Latin America: Comparative Essays on Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, and Colombia. Stanford University Press, 1986.Google Scholar
Bouvard, Marguerite Guzman. Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Wilmington, de: Scholarly Resources, 1994.Google Scholar
Bulmer-Thomas, Victor. The Economic History of Latin America since Independence, 2nd edn. Cambridge University Press, 2003.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Burke, Janet, and Humphrey, Ted, eds. Nineteenth-century Nation Building and the Latin American Intellectual Tradition: A Reader. Indianapolis, in, and Cambridge, ma: Hackett Publishing Company, 2007.Google Scholar
Bushnell, David, and Macaulay, Neill. The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century, 2nd edn. Oxford University Press, 1994.Google Scholar
Canak, William L. Lost Promises: Debt, Austerity, and Development in Latin America. Boulder, co: Westview Press, 1989.Google Scholar
Castro, Daniel, ed. Revolution and Revolutionaries: Guerrilla Movements in Latin America. Wilmington, de: Scholarly Resources, 1999.Google Scholar
Charlip, Julie A., and Burns, E. Bradford. Latin America: An Interpretive History, 9th edn. Upper Saddle River, nj: Prentice Hall, 2011.Google Scholar
Chasteen, John Charles. Americanos: Latin America’s Struggle for Independence. Oxford University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Chomsky, Aviva. A History of the Cuban Revolution. Malden, ma: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.Google Scholar
Coniff, Michael L. Populism in Latin America, 2nd edn. Tuscaloosa, al: University of Alabama Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Drake, Paul. Money Doctors, Foreign Debts, and Economic Reforms in Latin America from the 1890s to the Present. Wilmington, de: Scholarly Resources, 1994.Google Scholar
Earle, Rebecca, ed. Rumours of Wars: Civil Conflict in Nineteenth-century Latin America. London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 2000.Google Scholar
Gleijeses, Piero. Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944–1954. Princeton University Press, 1991.Google Scholar
Gonzales, Michael J. The Mexican Revolution, 1910–1940. Albuquerque, nm: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.Google Scholar
Gott, Richard. In the Shadow of the Liberator: Hugo Chávez and the Transformation of Venezuela. London: Verso, 2000.Google Scholar
Lewis, Paul H. Guerrillas and Generals: The “Dirty War” in Argentina. Westport, ct: Praeger, 2002.Google Scholar
Macdonald, Laura, and Ruckert, Arne, eds. Post-neoliberalism in the Americas: Beyond the Washington Consensus? New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McCartney, Paul T. Power and Progress: American National Identity, the War of 1898, and the Rise of American Imperialism. Baton Rouge, la: Louisiana State University Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Qureshi, Lubna Z. Nixon, Kissinger, and Allende: U.S. Involvement in the 1973 Coup in Chile. Lanham, md: Lexington Books, 2009.Google Scholar
Rock, David, ed. Latin America in the 1940s: War and Postwar Transitions. Berkeley, ca: University of California Press, 1994.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Santoni, Pedro, ed. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Latin America: From the Wars of Independence to the Central American Wars. Westport, ct: Greenwood Press, 2008.Google Scholar
Thorp, Rosemary. Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the 20th Century. Washington, dc: Inter-American Development Bank, 1998.Google Scholar
Topik, Steven C., and Wells, Allen, eds. The Second Conquest of Latin America: Coffee, Henequen, and Oil During the Export Boom, 1850–1930. Austin, tx: University of Texas Press, 1998.Google Scholar
Wright, Thomas C. Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution. Westport, ct: Praeger, 2001.Google Scholar

Further reading

Allina, Eric. Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique. Charlottesville, va: University of Virginia Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Allman, Jean Marie. The Quills of the Porcupine: Asante Nationalism in an Emergent Ghana. Madison, wi: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.Google Scholar
Anderson, David. Histories of the Hanged: Britain’s Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire. New York: Norton, 2005.Google Scholar
Austin, Gareth. Labour, Land and Capital in Ghana: From Slavery to Free Labour in Asante, 1807–1956. Rochester, ny: University of Rochester Press, 2004.Google Scholar
Bayart, Jean-François. The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly, 2nd edn. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Beinart, William. Twentieth-century South Africa, 2nd edn. Oxford University Press, 2001.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Berman, Bruce, and Lonsdale, John. Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa, 2 vols. London: James Currey, 1992.Google Scholar
Bernault, Florence. Démocraties ambiguës en Afrique Centrale: Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon: 1940–1965. Paris: Karthala, 1996.Google Scholar
Berry, Sara. “Hegemony on a shoestring: indirect rule and access to agricultural land.” Africa 62:3 (1992), 327355.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Berry, Sara. No Condition is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa. Madison, wi: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.Google Scholar
Branche, Raphaëlle. La torture et l’armée pendant la guerre d’Algérie. Paris: Gallimard, 2001.Google Scholar
Burbank, Jane, and Cooper, Frederick. Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference. Princeton University Press, 2010.Google Scholar
Cain, P. J., and Hopkins, A. G.. British Imperialism, 1688–2000. Harlow: Longman, 2002.Google Scholar
Cohen, Abner. “Cultural strategies in the organization of trading diasporas.” In Meillassoux, Claude, ed., The Development of Indigenous Trade and Markets in West Africa. Oxford University Press, 1971, pp. 266284.Google Scholar
Comaroff, Jean, and Comaroff, John. Of Revelation and Revolution, Vol. 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa. University of Chicago Press, 1991.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Conklin, Alice. A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895–1930. Stanford University Press, 1997.Google Scholar
Conklin, Alice. In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850–1950. Ithaca, ny: Cornell University Press, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cooper, Frederick. Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960. Princeton University Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Cooper, Frederick. Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa. Cambridge University Press, 1996.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cooper, Frederick. From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890–1925. New Haven, ct: Yale University Press, 1980.Google Scholar
Cooper, Frederick. Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of Africa. New Haven, ct: Yale University Press, 1977.Google Scholar
Cooper, Frederick, and Packard, Randall, eds. International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge. Berkeley, ca: University of California Press, 1997.Google Scholar
Cooper, Frederick, and Stoler, Ann Laura, eds. Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World. Berkeley, ca: University of California Press, 1997.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Coquery-Vidrovitch, Catherine. Les Africaines: histoire des femmes d’Afrique noire, du XIXe au XXe siècle. Paris: Éditions Desjonquères, 1994.Google Scholar
Dike, K. O. Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta. Oxford University Press, 1956.Google Scholar
Diop, Cheikh Anta. Nations nègres et culture: De l’antiquité nègre égyptienne aux problèmes culturels de l’Afrique Noire d’aujourd’hui. Paris: Éditions Africaines, 1954.Google Scholar
Dubois, W. E. B. The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the Part which Africa has Played in World History. New York: Viking, 1946.Google Scholar
Eltis, David. Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.Google Scholar
Falola, Toyin. The Political Economy of a Pre-colonial African State: Ibadan, 1830–1900. Ile-Ife: University of Ife Press, 1984.Google Scholar
Feierman, Steven. Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and History in Tanzania. Madison, wi: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.Google Scholar
Ferguson, James. Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt. Berkeley, ca: University of California Press, 1999.Google Scholar
Freund, Bill. The African City: A History. Cambridge University Press, 2007.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Giliomee, Hermann. The Afrikaners: Biography of a People. Charlottesville, va: University of Virginia Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Glassman, Jonathon. Feasts and Riot: Revelry, Rebellion, and Popular Consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856–1888. Portsmouth, nh: Heinemann, 1995.Google Scholar
Glassman, Jonathon. War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar. Bloomington, in: Indiana University Press, 2011.Google Scholar
Green, Toby. The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589. Cambridge University Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Guyer, Jane. Money Matters: Instability, Values and Social Payments in the Modern History of West African Communities. Portsmouth, nh: Heinemann, 1995.Google Scholar
Hamilton, Carolyn, ed. The Mfecane Aftermath: Reconstructive Debates in Southern African History. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1995.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hamilton, Carolyn, Mbenga, Bernard, and Ross, Robert, eds. The Cambridge History of South Africa, Vol. 1: From Early Times to 1885. Cambridge University Press, 2010.Google Scholar
Harries, Patrick. Work, Culture, and Identity: Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa, c.1860–1910. Portsmouth, nh: Heinemann, 1994.Google Scholar
Heywood, Linda, and Thornton, John, Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585–1660. Cambridge University Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Hiskett, Mervyn. The Sword of Truth: The Life and Times of the Shehu Usuman dan Fodio. Oxford University Press, 1973.Google Scholar
Iliffe, John. Africans: The History of a Continent, 2nd edn. Cambridge University Press, 2007.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Isaacman, Allen. Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938–1961. Portsmouth, nh: Heinemann, 1996.Google Scholar
Jerven, Morten. “African growth recurring: an economic history perspective on African growth episodes, 1690–2010.” Economic History of Developing Regions 25:2 (2010), 127154.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jerven, Morten. Poor Numbers: How We are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do About It. Ithaca, ny: Cornell University Press, 2013.Google Scholar
Klein, Martin. Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa. Cambridge University Press, 1998.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kriger, Norma. Zimbabwe’s Guerrilla War: Peasant Voices. Cambridge University Press, 1992.Google Scholar
Last, Murray. The Sokoto Caliphate. New York: Humanities Press, 1967.Google Scholar
Lindsay, Lisa. Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria. Westport, ct: Heinemann, 2003.Google Scholar
Lindsay, Lisa, and Miescher, Stephan, eds. Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa. Portsmouth, nh: Heinemann, 2003.Google Scholar
Lodge, Tom. Black Politics in South Africa Since 1945. New York: Longman, 1983.Google Scholar
Lodge, Tom. Politics in South Africa: From Mandela to Mbeki. Bloomington, in: Indiana University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Lovejoy, Paul. Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa, 3rd edn. Cambridge University Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Lydon, Ghislaine. On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-century Western Africa. Cambridge University Press, 2009.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Manchuelle, François. Willing Migrants: Soninke Labor Diasporas, 1848–1960. Athens, oh: Ohio University Press, 1997.Google Scholar
Mann, Greg. Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century. Durham, nc: Duke University Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Mann, Kristin, and Roberts, Richard, eds. Law in Colonial Africa. Portsmouth, nh: Heinemann, 1991.Google Scholar
Manning, Patrick. Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades. Cambridge University Press, 1990.Google Scholar
Marseille, Jacques. Empire colonial et capitalisme français: histoire d’un divorce, new edn. Paris: Albin Michel, 2005.Google Scholar
McCann, J. C. Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: An Environmental History of Africa, 1800–1990. Portsmouth, nh: Heinemann, 1999.Google Scholar
McCaskie, T. C. State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante. Cambridge University Press, 1995.Google Scholar
McKittrick, Meredith. To Dwell Secure: Generation, Christianity, and Colonialism in Ovamboland. Portsmouth, nh: Heinemann, 2003.Google Scholar
Miers, Suzanne, and Roberts, Richard, eds. The End of Slavery in Africa. Madison, wi: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.Google Scholar
Nugent, Paul. Africa Since Independence. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nwokeji, G. Ugo. The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra: An African Society in the Atlantic World. Cambridge University Press, 2010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ochonu, Moses. Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression. Athens, oh: Ohio University Press, 2009.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Osborn, Emily. Our New Husbands are Here: Households, Gender, and Politics in a West African State from the Slave Trade to Colonial Rule. Athens, oh: Ohio University Press, 2011.Google Scholar
Peterson, Derek. Creative Writing: Translation, Bookkeeping, and the Work of Imagination in Colonial Kenya. Portsmouth, nh: Heinemann, 2004.Google Scholar
Posel, Deborah. The Making of Apartheid, 1948–1961: Conflict and Compromise. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Priestley, Margaret. West African Trade and Coast Society: A Family Study. Oxford University Press, 1969.Google Scholar
Ranger, Terence. “Nationalist historiography, patriotic history and the history of the nation: the struggle over the past in Zimbabwe.” Journal of Southern African Studies 30:2 (2004), 215234.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ranger, Terence. Revolt in Southern Rhodesia, 1896–97: A Study in African Resistance. Evanston, il: Northwestern University Press, 1967.Google Scholar
Reid, Richard. Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda. Oxford University Press, 2002.Google Scholar
Robinson, David. The Holy War of Umar Tal: The Western Sudan in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press, 1985.Google Scholar
Robinson, David. Paths of Accommodation: Muslim Societies and French Colonial Authorities in Senegal and Mauritania, 1880–1920. Athens, oh: Ohio University Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Robinson, Ronald, and Gallagher, John. Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1961.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ross, Robert, Mager, Anne, and Nasson, Bill, eds. The Cambridge History of South Africa, Vol. 2: 1885–1994. Cambridge University Press, 2011.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ruedy, John. Modern Algeria: The Origins and Development of a Nation, 2nd edn. Bloomington, in: Indiana University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Saada, Emmanuelle. Empire’s Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies, trans. Goldhammer, Arthur. University of Chicago Press, 2012.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Searing, James F. West African Slavery and Atlantic Commerce: The Senegal River Valley, 1700–1860. Cambridge University Press, 1993.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Seekings, Jeremy, and Nattrass, Nicoli. Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa. New Haven, ct: Yale University Press, 2005.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shepard, Todd. The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France. Ithaca, ny: Cornell University Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Sheriff, Abdul. Slaves, Spices, and Ivory in Zanzibar: Integration of an East African Commercial Empire into the World Economy, 1770–1873. Athens, oh: Ohio University Press, 1987.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thénault, Sylvie. Histoire de la guerre d’indépendance algérienne. Paris: Flammarion, 2005.Google Scholar
Thomas, Lynn. Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya. Berkeley, ca: University of California Press, 2003.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tilley, Helen. Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870–1950. University of Chicago Press, 2011.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Trapido, Stanley. “Landlord and tenant in a colonial economy: the Transvaal 1880–1900.” Journal of Southern African Studies 5:1 (1978), 2658.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
van Beusekom, Monica. Negotiating Development: African Farmers and Colonial Experts at the Office du Niger, 1920–1960. Portsmouth, nh: Heinemann, 2002.Google Scholar
van Onselen, Charles. The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894–1985. New York: Hill & Wang, 1996.Google Scholar
Vansina, Jan. Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom. Oxford University Press, 2004.Google Scholar
Vaughan, Megan. Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991.Google Scholar
Vaughan, Megan. The Story of an African Famine: Gender and Famine in Twentieth-century Malawi. Cambridge University Press, 1987.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
White, Luise. Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa. Berkeley, ca: University of California Press, 2000.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wilks, Ivor. Asante in the Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order, 2nd edn. Cambridge University Press, 1989.Google Scholar
Willis, Justin. Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.Google Scholar
Worger, William. South Africa’s City of Diamonds: Mine Workers and Monopoly Capitalism in Kimberley, 1867–1895. New Haven, ct: Yale University Press, 1987.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zewde, Bahru. A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855–1991, 2nd edn. Athens, oh: Ohio University Press, 2001.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Further reading

Beckert, Sven. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Random House, 2014.Google Scholar
Bender, Thomas. A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History. New York: Hill & Wang, 2006.Google Scholar
Bender, Thomas. ed. Rethinking American History in a Global Age. Berkeley, ca: University of California Press, 2002.Google Scholar
Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, ma: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill & Wang, 1983.Google Scholar
Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: Norton, 1991.Google Scholar
Davis, David B. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823. Ithaca, ny: Cornell University Press, 1975.Google Scholar
de Grazia, Victoria. Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through Twentieth-century Europe. Cambridge, ma: Harvard University Press, 2005.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Eckes, Alfred, and Zeiler, Thomas. Globalization and the American Century. Cambridge University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Ellwood, David. The Shock of America: Europe and the Challenge of the Century. Oxford University Press, 2012.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Förster, Stig, and Nagler, Jorg, eds. On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861–1871. Cambridge University Press, 1997.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Howe, Daniel Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. Oxford University Press, 2008.Google Scholar
Iger, David. The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush. Oxford University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Johnson, Benjamin H., and Graybill, Andrew R., eds. Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories. Durham, nc: Duke University Press, 2010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kennedy, David. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945. Oxford University Press, 1999.Google Scholar
Lake, Marilyn, and Reynolds, Henry. Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men’s Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality. Cambridge University Press, 2008.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Logevall, Fredrik. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam. New York: Random House, 2012.Google Scholar
McCoy, Alfred W., and Scarano, Francisco A., eds. Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State. Madison, wi: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Manela, Erez. The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism. Oxford University Press, 2007.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Meinig, D. W. The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Vol. 3: Transcontinental America, 1850–1915. New Haven, ct: Yale University Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Ngai, Mae M. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton University Press, 2004.Google Scholar
Roberts, Timothy. Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism. Charlottesville, va: University of Virginia Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Rodgers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Cambridge, ma: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rosenberg, Emily S., ed. A World Connecting, 1870–1945 (A History of the World, general eds. Akira Iriye and Jorgen Osterhammel). Cambridge, ma: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Taylor, Alan. The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies. New York: Knopf, 2010.Google Scholar
Tucker, Richard. Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World. Berkeley, ca: University of California Press, 2000.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
White, Ashli. Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic. Baltimore, md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815. Cambridge University Press, 1991.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wilkins, Mira. The History of Foreign Investment in the United States to 1914. Cambridge, ma: Harvard University Press, 1989.Google Scholar
Williams, Michael. Americans and their Forests: A Historical Geography. University of Chicago Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Zolberg, Aristides. A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America. Cambridge, ma: Harvard University Press, 2006.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Further reading

Abbott, Carl. ‘The federal presence’. In Milner, Clyde A., O’Connor, Carol A. and Sandweiss, Martha A., eds., The Oxford History of the American West. Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 468499.Google Scholar
Blainey, Geoffrey. The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia’s History. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1966.Google Scholar
Blussé, Leonard. Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans. Cambridge, ma: Harvard University Press, 2008.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chang, Kornel S. Pacific Connections: The Making of the U.S.–Canadian Borderlands. Berkeley, ca, and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Darian-Smith, Kate. On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime, 1939–1945, 2nd edn. Melbourne University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Eiji, Takemae. The Allied Occupation of Japan. New York: Continuum International, 2002.Google Scholar
Flynn, Dennis O., and Giráldez, Arturo, eds. The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500–1900, 17 vols. Aldershot: Variorum/Ashgate, 2009.Google Scholar
Hanley, Susan B. Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture. London: University of California Press, 1997.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hatton, Timothy J., and Williamson, Jeffrey G.. Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance. Cambridge, ma: MIT Press, 2005.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hoare, J. E. Japan’s Treaty Ports and Foreign Settlements: The Uninvited Guests 1858–1899. Folkestone: Japan Library, 1994.Google Scholar
Igler, David. The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush. Oxford University Press, 2013.Google Scholar
Jones, Eric, Frost, Lionel and White, Colin. Coming Full Circle: An Economic History of the Pacific Rim. Boulder, co: Westview Press, 1993.Google Scholar
Kimura, Mitsuhiko. ‘The economics of Japanese imperialism in Korea, 1910–1939’. Economic History Review 48:3 (1995), 555574.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lotchin, Roger W. The Bad City in the Good War: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Diego. Bloomington, in: Indiana University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
McLean, Ian W. Why Australia Prospered: The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth. Princeton University Press, 2013.Google Scholar
McNeill, J. R.Of rats and men: a synoptic environmental history of the island Pacific’. Journal of World History 5:2 (1994), 299349.Google Scholar
Nash, Gerald D. The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War. Bloomington, in: Indiana University Press, 1985.Google Scholar
Pao-San Ho, Samuel. ‘Colonialism and development: Korea, Taiwan, and Kwantung’. In Myers, Ramon H. and Peattie, Mark R., eds., The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895–1945. Princeton University Press, 1984, pp. 347398.Google Scholar
Peattie, Mark R.The Japanese colonial empire, 1895–1945’. In Duus, Peter, ed., The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. 6: The Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 217270.Google Scholar
Perry, John Curtis. Facing West: Americans and the Opening of the Pacific. Westport, ct: Praeger, 1994.Google Scholar
Sugihara, Kaoru. ‘The Second Noel Butlin Lecture: labour-intensive industrialisation in global history’. Australian Economic History Review 47:2 (2007), 121154.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tyrrell, Ian. True Gardens of the Gods: Californian–Australian Environmental Reform, 1860–1930. Berkeley, ca, and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Walker, Richard. ‘California’s golden road to riches: natural resources and regional capitalism, 1848–1940’. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 91:1 (2001), 167199.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wills, John E.Maritime Asia, 1500–1800: the interactive emergence of European domination’. American Historical Review 98:1 (1993), 83105.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wong, R. Bin. China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience. Ithaca, ny, and London: Cornell University Press 1997.Google Scholar
Yasuba, Yasukichi. ‘Did Japan ever suffer from a shortage of natural resources before World War II?Journal of Economic History 56:3 (1996), 543560.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×