This list represents the starting point for the major field in Global History. Students taking Global as a major field will need to meet with their regional advisor for minor field recommendations (for Latin America, Asia, Africa or Atlantic World).

Global History Bibliography

• Abu-Lughod, Janet L. 1989. Before European Hegemony. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Austen, Ralph A. 2010. Trans-Sahara Africa in World History. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Bales, Kevin. 2004. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. Revised with a new preface ed. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Bentley, Jerry H. 1993. Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Braudel, Fernand. 1972. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. Translated by Siân Reynolds. New York: Harper & Row.
• Cañizares-Esquerre, Jorge. 2001. How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• Chakrabarty, Dipesh, and American Council of Learned Societies. 2000. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
• Crosby, Alfred W. 1986. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Davis, Mike. 2002; 2001. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of The Third World. Paperback ed. London; New York: Verso.
• Dunn, Ross E. 2000. The New World History: A Teacher’s Companion. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s.
• Diamond, Jared M. 1997. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton.
• Frank, Andre Gunder. 1998. Reorient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley, Calif.; London: University of California Press. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Gomez, Michael A. 2004. Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora (New Approaches to African History).
• Harrison, Lawrence E., and Samuel P. Huntington. 2000. Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. 1st ed. New York: Basic Books.
• Hodgson, Marshall G.S. 1974. The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago.
• Ibn Khaldun. 2005. The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History. Abridged and edited by N.J. Dawood. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Landes, David S. 1998. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton.
• Lewis, Martin W., and Kären Wigen. 1997. The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Lindsay, Lisa A. 2007. Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade. Upper Saddle River, NJ.: Prentice Hall.
• Marks, Robert. 2002. The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield.
• McNeill, William 1991. The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community. Includes “Retrospective Essay.” Chicago: University of Chicago.
• Mignolo, Walter D. 2003. The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
• Northrup, David. 2002. Africa’s Discovery of Europe, 1450-1850. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Pomeranz, Kenneth. 2000. The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
• Scott, James C. 1998. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale agrarian studies. New Haven Conn.: Yale University Press.
• Spengler, Oswald. 1991. The Decline of the West: An Abridged Edition. Translated by Charles Francis Atkinson. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Stavrianos, Leften S. 1991. A Global History: From Prehistory to the Present. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
• Toynbee, Arnold J. 1987. A Study of History. 2 volumes: 1-VI; VII-X. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice. 2004. World-Systems Analysis: An introduction. Durham: Duke University Press.
• Wong, Roy Bin. 1997. China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.