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OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 01/05/2016, SPi THE PROSPECT OF GLOBAL HISTORY OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 01/05/2016, SPi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 01/05/2016, SPi The Prospect of Global History Edited by JAMES BELICH JOHN DARWIN MARGRET FRENZ and CHRIS WICKHAM 1 OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 01/05/2016, SPi 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © Oxford University Press 2016 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted First Edition published in 2016 Impression: 1 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Control Number: 2015942141 ISBN 978–0–19–873225–9 Printed in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work. OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 01/05/2016, SPi Preface We envisage this volume as the first in a new series in global history which is char- acterized by historical depth, a wide geographical range, and the concrete applica- tion of different approaches to global history, engaging with multiple methodologies, coming from an interdisciplinary perspective, and teasing out connections and their limitations by asking challenging questions. Some of these ideas are explored in this volume. The Editors OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 01/05/2016, SPi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 01/05/2016, SPi Acknowledgements This publication arises from the conference ‘New Directions in Global History’, which took place at the University of Oxford from 27 to 29 September 2012, funded by the John Fell Oxford University Press (OUP) Research Fund. We thank them for their support. The editors would like to acknowledge the invaluable con- tribution of Claire Phillips of the Oxford Centre for Global History to the prepar- ation of this volume, and of both her and Robert Fletcher to the organization of the conference from which it originates. We are also grateful to Robert Faber, Rachel Neaum, and Cathryn Steele at OUP for their continued support. OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 01/05/2016, SPi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 01/05/2016, SPi Contents List of Figures xi List of Maps xi List of Tables xi List of Contributors xiii I. CONCEPTUAL CONSIDERATIONS Introduction: The Prospect of Global History 3 James Belich, John Darwin, and Chris Wickham 1. Global History and Historical Sociology 23 Jürgen Osterhammel 2. The Economist and Global History 44 Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke II. GLOBAL CIRCULATIONS 3. Unnecessary Dependences: Illustrating Circulation in Pre-modern Large-scale History 65 Nicholas Purcell 4. A Global Middle Ages? 80 Robert I. Moore 5. The Black Death and the Spread of Europe 93 James Belich 6. The Qing Empire in the Fabric of Global History 108 Matthew W. Mosca III. GLOBAL NETWORKS 7. Global History from an Islamic Angle 127 Francis Robinson 8. The Real American Empire 146 Antony G. Hopkins 9. Writing Constitutions and Writing World History 160 Linda Colley Afterword: History on a Global Scale 178 John Darwin Bibliography 185 Index 215
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