World History
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In the Library: Articles
Bentley, Jerry H. "Hemispheric integration, 500-1500 c.e.," Journal of World History 9,2 (fall 98):237-54.
Bright, Charles & Michael Geyer. "For a unified history of the world in the 20th c.," Radical History 39 (fall 87):69-91.
McNeill, William H. "World history & the rise & fall of the West," Journal of World History 9,2 (fall 98):215-36.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Before European Hegemony: The World System, AD 1250-1350 (NY: Oxford, 1989).
Bentley, Jerry H. Old World Encounters: Cross-Cutural Contacts & Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (NY: Oxford, 1993).
__________. Shapes of World History in 20th-c. Scholarship (Washington: American Historical Association, 1996).
Cipolla, Carlo. The Economic History of World Population (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962).
Crosby, Alfred W. The Colombian Exchange: Biological & Cultural Consequences of 1492 [1972] (Westport CT: Praeger, 2003).
Curtin, Philip D. Cross-Cultural Trade in World History (NY: Cambridge, 1984).
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (NY, 1997).
Frank, Andre Gunder. ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age (Berkeley: U. of California, 1998).
Marks, Robert B. The Origins of the Modern world: A Global & Ecological Narrative (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
McNeill, William H. (ed.) Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History (Great Barrington MA: Berkshire, 2005). Indispensable reference. See Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History.