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Research in world history is expanding rapidly through the efforts of interested individuals. While the number and size of formal programs remains small, the range of activities in research is preparing it to become a major new research field (Updated as of September 2007).
Journals
- Journal of World History (University of Hawaii Press; journal of the World History Association; founded 1990)
- Comparative Studies in Society and History (Cambridge University Press, founded 1958)
- Itinerario (Institute for the History of European Expansion, Leiden; journal of the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction; founded 1977)
- Journal of World-Systems Research (Institute for Research on world-Systems, founded 1995)
- Review (Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University; founded 1976)
- International Historical Review (Department of History, Simon Fraser University; founded 1979)
- Comparative Civilizations Review (Journal of the International Society
for the Comparative Study of Civilizations; founded 1979)
- Social Evolution and History ("Uchitel" Publishing House; founded 2001)
World History Book Series
Active publishers in world history include University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, M. E. Sharpe, McGraw-Hill Publishers, Markus Wiener Publishers, W. W. Norton, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, and others.
World History Association Book Prize Winners
- 2005 David Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004)
- 2004 Victor Lieberman, Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, C.800-1830: Integration on the Mainland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- 2003 Lauren Benton, Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
- 2002 John H. McNeill, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (New York: 2000); and Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
- 2001 Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World (London, 2001)
- 2000 James C. McClellan III and Harold Dorn, Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).
- 1999 Andre Gunder Frank, ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).
Recent PhD Dissertations
- John Brolin, “The bias of the world: Theories of unequal exchange in history” (Ph.D. dissertation, Lunds Universitet, Human Ecology Division, 2007, 390 pages). ProQuest Digital Dissertations database (Publication No. AAT C827524).
- Sharon Chiorazzo, “A theoretical discussion of the nation-state in Western discourse and its application to non Western peoples” (Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, Department of Politics, 2007, 392 pages). ProQuest Digital Dissertations database (Publication No. AAT 3247356).
- CarrieAnne Simonini DeLoach, “Exploring transient identities: Deconstructing depictions of gender and imperial ideology in the Oriental travel narratives of Englishwomen, 1831--1915” (M.A. dissertation, University of Central Florida, Department of History, 2006, 136 pages). ProQuest Digital Dissertations database (Publication No. AAT 1439578).
- David T. Fahrenkrug, “Enduring empires: Strategies of imperial persistence” (Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Chicago, Department of Political Sciences, 2006, 274 pages). ProQuest Digital Dissertations database (Publication No. AAT 3231391).
- Armand Garcia, “Jose Marti and the global dimensions of late nineteenth-century Cuban nation building” (Ph.D. dissertation, Washington State University, Department of History, 2006, 241 pages) ProQuest Digital Dissertations database (Publication No. AAT 3252311).
- Christopher Harris, “The road less traveled by: Rural northern New England in global perspective, 1815—1960” (Ph.D. dissertation, Northeastern University, Department of History, 2007, 361 pages). ProQuest Digital Dissertations database (Publication No. AAT 3244751).
- Chris Jesse, “Rapid conquest societies: A comparative study” (M.S.S. dissertation, University of Calgary, Center for Military and Strategic Studies, 2007, 158 pages). ProQuest Digital Dissertations database (Publication No. AAT MR25613).
- Tiffany Trimmer, “Solving Migration ‘Problems’: Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Indian Ocean Approaches, 1890-1930” (Ph.D. dissertation, Northeastern University, Department of History, 2007).
- Victor Vladimirovich Zatsepine, “Beyond the Black Dragon River: Encounters and decline of the Qing and Russian empires, 1860--1917” (Ph.D. dissertation, The University of British Columbia, Department of History, 2006, 233 pages). ProQuest Digital Dissertations database (Publication No. AAT NR20027).
Academic Conferences
Research Centers
Research Institute for World History (Tokyo); Center for World History, (Univ. of Hawaii); Institute for Pacific World History; World History Program (University of California – Santa Cruz); World History Center (University of Pittsburgh)
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