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Reading List, Weeks 1-7:

AL-RHODAN, N. & STOUDMAN, G. 2006. “Definitions of globalization: A comprehensive overview and a proposed definition”. GCSP, pp. 1-21.
SEBASTIAN CONRAD, “Chapter: Introduction”, in Sebastian Conrad, What is Global History? (Princeton University Press, 2016), pp. 1-16. [copyright]
SEBASTIAN CONRAD, “Chapter 4: Global History as a Distinct Approach” in Sebastian Conrad, What is Global History? (Princeton University Press, 2016), pp. 62-89. [copyright]
SACHSENMAIER, D. 2006. ‘Global history and critiques of Western Perspectives.’ Comparative Education 42(3), pp. 451-470.
GABRIELA DE LIMA GRECCO AND SVEN SCHUSTER, “Decolonizing Global History? A Latin American Perspective”, Journal of World History, Vol. 31, No. 2, June 2020, pp. 425-446.
WESSELING, H.L. ‘Globalization: A Historical Perspective.’ European Review 17:3/4 (2009), pp. 455-462.
VANHAUTE, E. 2016. ‘Making Sense of the Great Divergence: The Limits and Challenges of World History’, Comparativ 26 (3), pp. 101-118.link
DAVID LANDES, “Chapter 4: The Invention of Invention” in David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, (New York/London: WW Norton and Company, 1998), pp. 45-59. [Link]
JOHN HOBSON, “East and West in Global History”, Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 23, No.2–3 (2006), pp. 408-410.
CARLOS, A.M. & NICHOLAS, S. 1988. ‘Giants of an earlier capitalism: The chartered trading companies as modern multinationals.’ The Business History Review 62(3), pp. 398-419.
WILLIAM A. PETTIGREW and DAVID VEEVERS, “Introduction”, in: The Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History, c. 1550-1750 (Brill, 2018), pp. 10-20.
ANDREAS ECKERT, “Chapter 9: Bringing the “Black Atlantic” into Global History: The Project of Pan-Africanism”, in Conrad, Sebastian, and Dominic Sachsenmaier (eds). Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s, Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007, pp. 237-257.
PAUL TIYAMBE ZELEZA, “Rewriting the African Diaspora: Beyond the Black Atlantic”, African Affairs, Vol. 104, No. 414, pp. 35–68.
GAIUTRA BAHADUR, Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture, University of Chicago Press, 2013, pp. xix-xxi, 75-93. [Link]
NORMAN ETHERINGTON, “Writing David Livingstone Back into South African History”, Journal of South African Studies, Vol. 49, No, 2, pp. 285-299.
NUPUR CHAUDHURI, “Shawls, Jewelry, Curry, and Rice in Victorian Britain”, in Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance, ed. by Nupur Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel, Indiana University Press, 1992, pp. 231-246.
MICHAEL ADAS, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideas of Western Dominance, Cornell University Press, 2014, pp. 199-236

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