Bibliography of world history (field).
Authors and their books on world history Christopher Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World: Global Connections and Comparisons, 1780–1914 (London, 2004) Jerry Bentley, (1949–2012) Founder and editor of the Journal of World History Jacques Bertin, Atlas historique universel. Panorama de l'histoire du monde, Geneva, Minerva, 1997 Fernand Braudel, (1903–1985) Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme (Paris, 1973, 3 vols.); English translation, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Centuries, translated by Siân Reynolds, 3 vols. (1979) Philip D. Curtin (1922–2009), The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire. (2000) 308 pp. . online review Christopher Dawson (1889–1970) Religion and the Rise of Western Culture (1950) excerpt and text search Will Durant (1885–1981) and Ariel Durant (1898–1981); The Story of Civilization (1935–1975). Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Zurich, 1884) Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (b. 1950), "Millennium" (1995), "Civilizations" (2000), "The World" (2007). Francis Fukuyama (1952– ) The End of History and the Last Man (1992)See revised edition Samuel P. Huntington (1927 - 2008) The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1830), philosopher of world historysee Philosophy of History Akira Iriye, Global and Transnational History: The Past, Present, and Future (2012) Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), The State: Its Historic Role (London, 1896) Patrick Manning, Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past (2003)See excerpt William Hardy McNeill (born 1917);See McNeill, The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian's Memoir (2005) see especially The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (1963) Robert McNeill and William H. McNeill. The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History (2003) excerpt and text search Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964), Glimpses of World History (1930–1933) Diego Olstein, (2021) A Brief History of Now: The Past and Present of Global Power Jürgen Osterhammel, The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (2014) excerpt Carroll Quigley (1910–1977), The Evolution of Civilizations (1961), Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966), Weapons Systems and Political Stability: A History (1983) Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968), Russian-American macrosociology; Social and Cultural Dynamics (4 vol., 1937–41)B. V. Johnston, Pitirim A. Sorokin an Intellectual Biography (1995) Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), German; The Decline of the West (1918–22) vol 1 online; vol 2 online; excerpt and text search, abridged edition Peter Stearns, (1936–) USA; World History in Brief: Major Patterns of Change and Continuity, 7th ed. (2009); Encyclopedia of World History, 6th ed. (200pp) Luc-Normand Tellier, Canadian; Urban World History, PUQ, (2009), 650 pages; online edition Arnold J. Toynbee, British; A Study of History (1934–61)William H. McNeill, Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life (1990) Eric Voegelin (1901–1985) Order and History (1956–85)Jeffrey C. Herndon, Eric Voegelin and the Problem of Christian Political Order (2007) excerpt and text search Immanuel Wallerstein, World-systems theory Giano Rocca, "The Ultimate Meaning of Human Existence - The Scientific Method Applied to the Human Condition - Book I" (2016)
Surveys of world history Bayly, Christopher Alan. The birth of the modern world, 1780–1914: global connections and comparisons (Blackwell, 2004) Bullet, Richard et al., The Earth and Its Peoples 6th ed. (2 vol, 2014), university textbook Duiker, William J. Duiker and Jackson J. Spielvogel. World History (2 vol 2006), university textbook Dupuy, R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy. The Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present (1977), 1465 pp; comprehensive discussion focused on wars and battles Gombrich, Ernst. A Little History of the World (1936 & 1995) Grenville, J.A.S. A History of the World: From the 20th to the 21st Century (2005) Lee, Wayne E. Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History (2015) excerpt McKay, John P. and Bennett D. Hill. A History of World Societies (2 vol. 2011), university textbook McNeill, William H. A World History (1998), University textbook McNeill, William H., Jerry H. Bentley, and David Christian, eds. Berkshire Encyclopedia Of World History (5 vol 2005) Osterhammel, Jürgen. The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (Princeton University Press, 2014), 1167pp Paine, Lincoln. The sea and civilization: a maritime history of the world (Knopf, 2013). Pp. xxxv+ 744. 72 illustrations, 17 maps. excerpt Roberts, J. M. and O. A. Westad. The History of the World (2013) Rosenberg, Emily, et al. eds. A World Connecting: 1870–1945 (2012) Stearns, Peter N. ed. Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World: 1750 to the Present (8 vol. 2008) Stearns, Peter N. The Industrial Revolution in World History (1998) online edition Szulc, Tad. Then and Now: How the World Has Changed since W.W. II. (1990). 515 p. ; Popular history Tignor, Robert, et al. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World (4th ed, 2 vol. 2013), University textbook Watt, D. C., Frank Spencer, Neville Brown. A History of the World in the Twentieth Century (1967)
Transnational histories Adam, Thomas. Intercultural Transfers and the Making of the Modern World, 1800–2000: Sources and Contexts (2011) Boon, Marten. "Business Enterprise and Globalization: Towards a Transnational Business History." Business History Review 91.3 (2017): 511–535. Davies, Thomas Richard. NGOs: A new history of transnational civil society (2014). Ember, Carol R. Melvin Ember, and Ian A. Skoggard, eds. Encyclopedia of diasporas: immigrant and refugee cultures around the world (2004). Iriye, Akira. Global and Transnational History: The Past, Present, and Future (2010), 94pp Iriye, Akira and Pierre-Yves Saunier, eds. The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History: From the mid-19th century to the present day (2009); 1232pp; 400 entries by scholars. Osterhammel, Jürgen and Niels P. Petersson. Globalization: A Short History (2009) Pieke Frank N., Nyíri Pál, Thunø Mette, and Ceddagno Antonella. Transnational Chinese: Fujianese migrants in Europe (2004) Saunier, Pierre-Yves. Transnational History (2013)
Atlases Barraclough, Geoffrey, ed. The Times Atlas of World History (1979). Catchpole, Brian. Map History of the Modern World (1982) Darby, H. C., and H. Fullard, eds. The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 14: Atlas (1970) Haywood, John. Atlas of world history (1997) online free Kinder, Hermann and Werner Hilgemann. Anchor Atlas of World History (2 vol. 1978); advanced analytical maps, mostly of Europe O'Brian, Patrick. Atlas of World History (2010). excerpt Rand McNally. Historical atlas of the world (1997) online free Santon, Kate, and Liz McKay, eds. Atlas of World History (2005).
Historiography Adas, Michael. Essays on Twentieth-Century History (2010); historiographic essays on world history conceptualizing the "long" 20th century, from the 1870s to the early 2000s. Allardyce, Gilbert. "Toward world history: American historians and the coming of the world history course." Journal of World History 1.1 (1990): 23–76. Bentley, Jerry H., ed. The Oxford Handbook of World History (Oxford University Press, 2011) Costello, Paul. World Historians and Their Goals: Twentieth-Century Answers to Modernism (1993). Curtin, Philip D. "Depth, Span, and Relevance," The American Historical Review, Vol. 89, No. 1 (Feb., 1984), pp. 1–9 in JSTOR Dunn, Ross E., ed. The New World History: A Teacher's Companion. (2000). 607pp. online review Frye, Northrop. "Spengler Revisited" in Northrop Frye on modern culture (2003), pp 297–382, first published 1974; online Hare, J. Laurence, and Jack Wells. "Promising the World: Surveys, Curricula, and the Challenge of Global History," History Teacher, 48 (Feb. 2015) pp: 371–88. online articles by scholars Lang, Michael. "Globalization and Global History in Toynbee," Journal of World History 22#4 Dec. 2011 pp. 747–783 in project MUSE McInnes, Neil. "The Great Doomsayer: Oswald Spengler Reconsidered." National Interest 1997 (48): 65–76. Fulltext: Ebsco McNeill, William H. "The Changing Shape of World History." History and Theory 1995 34(2): 8–26. in JSTOR Manning, Patrick. Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past (2003), an important guide to the entire field excerpt and text search; online review Mazlish, Bruce. "Comparing Global History to World History," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Winter, 1998), pp. 385–395 in JSTOR Moore, Robert I. "World history." in Michael Bentley, ed., Companion to historiography (1997): 941–59. National Center for History in the Schools at UCLA. World History: The Big Eras, A Compact History of Humankind (2009), 96pp Neiberg, Michael S. Warfare in World History (2001) online edition Patel, Klaus Kiran: Transnational History, European History Online, Mainz: Institute of European History(2011) retrieved: November 11, 2011. Richards, Michael D. Revolutions in World History (2003) online edition Roupp, Heidi, ed. Teaching World History: A Resource Book. (1997), 274pp; online edition Sachsenmaier, Dominic, "Global Perspectives on Global History" (2011), Cambridge UP Smil, Vaclav. Energy in World History (1994) online edition Tellier, Luc-Normand. Urban World History (2009), PUQ, 650 pages; online edition Watts, Sheldon. Disease and Medicine in World History (2003) online edition
Further reading Pre-1920s books History, Its Theory and Practice – Benedetto Croce, Douglas Ainslie. Compendium of Chronicles. Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb George Crabb. Universal Historical Dictionary. Baldwin and Cradock, 1833 An universal history: in twenty-four books, Volume 1 By Johannes von Müller, James Cowles Prichard Bonnaud, Robert, The System of History, Fayard 1989, 334 pages (not yet translated). Guha, Ranajit, "History at the Limit of World-History" (Italian Academy Lectures), Columbia University Press 2002. Sale, George, Archibald Bower, and George Psalmanazar, "An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time". Millar, 1747. Wilson, Horace Hayman, "A manual of universal history and chronology". 1835. Jones, Lynds Eugene, George Palmer Putnam, and Simeon Strunsky, "Tabular Views of Universal History". G. P. Putnam's sons, 1907. 313 pages. Fisher, George Park, "Outlines of Universal History". Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, and company, 1885. 674 pages. Georg Weber, "Outlines of Universal History: From the Creation of the World to the Present Time". Hickling, Swan and Brewer, 1859. 559 pages. (ed. Translated by M. Behr). Ollier, Edmund, "Cassell's illustrated universal history" Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1885. Clare, Israel Smith, "Library of Universal History". R. S. Peale, J. A. Hill, 1897. Recent foreign history. R. S. Peale, J. A. Hill, 1897. Egypt's Place in Universal History: An Historical Investigation in Five Books – Christian Karl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen, Samuel Birch, Philo (of Byblos.). A chronological table of universal history extending from the earliest times to the year 1892. Louis Heilprin. World history in a concise representation. Georg Weber – German An Introduction to the Study of Universal History. John Stoddart Hegel, GWF. Philosophy of Right. TM Knox, tr. Oxford UP: New York, 1967. para. 341–360 (pp. 216–223). As a point of clarification, Hegel writes of World History, although this is somewhat identical to Universal History. Kant, Immanuel. “Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View.” In Philosophical Writings. Ernest Behler, ed. Lewis W Beck, tr. Continuum: New York, 1986. pp. 249–262.
Post-1920s books A Study of History by Arnold Toynbee. The Outline of History by Herbert Wells.