World History Reading List

Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Adas, Michael, and American Historical Association. Islamic & European Expansion: The Forging of a Global Order Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.

Bentley, Jerry H., and American Historical Association. Shapes of world history in twentieth-century scholarship (Essays on global and comparative history) Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1996.

Blaut, James M. The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History New York: Guilford Press, 1993.

Braudel, Fernand. Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800 New York: Harper and Row, 1973.

Chaudhuri, K. N. Asia before Europe: Economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750 Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Cooper, Frederick, and Ann Laura Stoler. Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1997.

Crosby, Alfred W. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History) Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Curtin, Philip D. The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History (Studies in Comparative World History)Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Davis, David Brion. Revolutions : Reflections on American Equality and Foreign Liberations Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 1990.

Diamond, Jared M. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.

Dirks, Nicholas B. Colonialism and Culture (The Comparative Studies in Society and History Book Series) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.

Frank, Andre Gunder. ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Frank, Andre Gunder, and Barry K. Gills. The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?London; New York: Routledge, 1993.


Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change Oxford [England]; Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell, 1989.

Hodgson, Marshall G. S., and Edmund Burke. Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam and World History (Studies in Comparative World History) Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Holt, Thomas C., The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938 (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture) The Johns Hopkins University Press (November 1, 1991)

Landes, David S. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.

Lapidus, Ira M. A History of Islamic Societies Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Mazlish, Bruce, and Ralph Buultjens. Conceptualizing Global History Boulder: Westview Press, 1993.

McNeill, William Hardy. Plagues and Peoples Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press, 1976.

Meyer, Karl Ernest, and Shareen Blair Brysac. Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999.

Mintz, Sidney Wilfred. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History New York, N.Y.:
Viking, 1985.

Northrup, David. Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834-1922 (Studies in Comparative World History). Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.


Rodney, Walter. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Washington: Howard University Press, 1974.

Schwartz, Stuart B. Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era (Studies in Comparative Early Modern History) Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1994.


Smith, Neil. Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space New York, NY: Blackwell, 1984.

Stearns, Peter N. The Industrial Revolution In World History (Essays in World History) Boulder, CO:Westview Press, 1993.


Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680 (Studies in Comparative World History) Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Tracy, James D., ed. The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long Distance Trade in the Early Modern World 1350-1750 (Studies in Comparative Early Modern History) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.


Williams, Eric. Capitalism and Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.

Wolf, Eric R. Europe and the People Without History Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.

Woodruff, William. Impact of Western Man: Study of Europe's Role in the World Economy, 1750-1960. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1967.

Wright, Donald R. The World and a Very Small Place: A History of Globalization in Niumi, the Gambia Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1997.