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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. ISBN 978-0-521-77135-1. 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)
• 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 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)
• William Hardy McNeill (born 1917); 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)
• 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)
• Eric Voegelin (1901–1985) Order and History (1956–85)
• 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. ISBN 0-688-07558-4; 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. ISBN 978-0-312-18327-1 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
• Hughes-Warrington, Marnie (2005). Palgrave Advances in World Histories. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. p. 286. ISBN 9780230523401. Retrieved 28 May 2023. 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. ISSN 0884-9382 Fulltext: Ebsco
• McNeill, William H. "The Changing Shape of World History." History and Theory 1995 34(2): 8–26. ISSN 0018-2656 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.
• The Philosophy of History by Karl Jaspers.
• Mink, Louis O. “Narrative Form as a Cognitive Instrument.” In Historical Understanding. Brian Fay, et al., eds. Cornell UP: Ithaca, 1987. pp. 182–203.
• White, Hayden. Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Johns Hopkins UP, 1975.
• D Christian. "The return of universal history." History and Theory 49.4 (2010): 6–27. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2303.2010.00557.x
• George Park Fisher. Outlines of Universal History Designed as a Text Book and for Private Reading. Kessinger Publishing, Jun 1, 2004.
• The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community. By William H. McNeill.
• The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama.
• Teaching & Researching Big History: Exploring a New Scholarly Field, International Big History Association, 2014.

Patents

• U.S. patent 1,406,173, Chart for Teaching Universal History, Nov 1, 1920.

Websites

• "List of Historical Works of Universal History". (Visual tour)
• "World History Atlas & Timelines since 3000 BC". (Geacron)

References

1. See revised edition
2. see Philosophy of History
3. See excerpt
4. See McNeill, The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian's Memoir (2005)
5. B. V. Johnston, Pitirim A. Sorokin an Intellectual Biography (1995)
6. William H. McNeill, Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life (1990)
7. Jeffrey C. Herndon, Eric Voegelin and the Problem of Christian Political Order (2007) excerpt and text search

External links

Professional groups

• World History Association
• H-World The H-World discussion list
• CLIOH-WORLD CLIOH-WORLD: European Erasmus Network about researching, teaching and learning world history

Resources

• Bridging World History Archived 2018-07-10 at the Wayback Machine texts and projects for advanced secondary course
  • free database of over 1500 photos, documents, maps and images, ready for classroom use Archived 2018-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
• Student Handouts, Inc. Free World History Lesson Plans, Handouts, and Worksheets
• Our World In Data—Web publication by Max Roser (from the University of Oxford) that visualises how living standards around the world have changed historically. Makes data available and covers a wide range of topics: Historical trends in health, food provision, the growth and distribution of incomes, violence, rights, wars, energy use, education, environmental changes and many other aspects are empirically analysed and visualised in this open access web publication.
• World History Matters
• The TimeMap of World History - World History Atlas
• HistoryWorld
• World History For Us All – (Christian) World History Model Curriculum
• Erik Ringmar, History of International Relations Open Textbook Project, Cambridge: Open Book, forthcoming.
• EDSITEment's World History vetted websites and lesson plans EDSITEment, "The Best of the Humanities on the Web"
• Scottish Centre for Global History - Public history blog that shares ongoing world history research projects from around the world.

• Bibliographies of history