Interactions : Transregional Perspectives on World History

by Bentley, Jerry H.; Bridenthal, Renate; Yang, Anand A.

• ISBN13: 9780824828677
• ISBN10: 0824828674
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-31
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

For the past half-century, area studies scholarship has been the principal filter through which scholars, policy makers, journalists, and the general public have organized knowledge about the larger world. The essays presented here deal with diverse issues and contexts but reflect a common interest in reconsidering the political, geographical, and cultural boundaries conventionally observed by area specialists and others. Each highlights the very general theme of cross-cultural interaction and endeavors to put previously separate bodies of scholarship in dialogue with one another. By exploring interactions that have historically linked world regions, the volume contributes to the development of transregional and global historical analysis.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
1 Regional Histories, Global Processes, Cross-Cultural Interactions	1	(13)
Jerry H Bentley
2 From Archaic Globalization to International Networks, circa 1600-2000	14	(16)
C.A. Bayly
3 Sufi Brotherhoods: Transcultural/Transstate Networks in the Muslim World	30	(18)
John O. Voll
4 Cotton: A Global History	48	(16)
Sven Beckert
5 From Red Crosses to Golden Arches: China, the Red Cross, and The Hague Peace Conference, 1899-1900	64	(30)
Caroline Reeves
6 Constructing Africa: African American Writers before Emancipation	94	(15)
Colin Palmer
7 Migration Control and the Globalization of Borders: China and the United States, 1898-1911	109	(26)
Adam McKeown
8 Smuggling and Its Malcontents	135	(15)
Alan L. Karras
9 Cartographies of Connection: Ocean Maps as Metaphors for Interarea History	150	(17)
Kären Wigen
10 Chronology, Crossroads, and Commonwealths: World-Regional Schemes and the Lessons of Caucasia	167	(35)
Stephen H. Rapp, Jr.
11 Regimes of World Order: Global Integration and the Production of Difference in Twentieth-Century World History	202	(37)
Charles Bright and Michael Geyer
Contributors	239	(4)
Index	243