Field One: Gender and Empire

Adler, M. "'Skirting the Edges of Civilization': Two Victorian Women Travelers and Colonial Spaces in South Africa," in  Kate Darian-Smith, et al, eds., Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature, and History in South Africa and Australia (New York, Routledge, 1996) 

Ahmed, Leila, "New Discourses," in Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 1992) 

Ahmed, Leila, "Western Ethnocentrism and Perceptions of the Harem," Feminist Studies 8 (Fall 1982): 521-34. 

Arnold, David, Colonizing the Body : State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1993) 

Ballhatchet, Kenneth. Race, Sex, and Class Under the Raj: Imperial Attitudes and Politics and Their Critics, 1793-1905 (London, Weidenfield and Nicolsom, 1980) 

Burton, Antoinette, Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915 (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1994) 

Callaway, Helen. Gender, Culture, and Empire: European Women in Colonial Nigeria (Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1987) 

Chaudhuri, Nupur, "Memsahibs and Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century Colonial India," Victorian Studies 13, 4(1988): 517-36. 

Chaudhuri, Nupur, and Margaret Strobel, eds. Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance (Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 1992) 

Cooper, Frederick and Stoler, eds Tensions of Empire Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1997) 

Haggis, Jane, "Gendering Colonialism or Colonising Gender?: Recent Women's Studies Approaches to White Women and the History of British Colonialism," Women's Studies International Forum 13 (1990): 105-16. 

Hyam, Ronald. Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1990) 

Mani, Lata. "Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India." Cultural Critique 7 (1987) 

Manicom, Linzi, "Ruling Relations: Rethinking State and Gender in South African History," Journal of African History 33 (1992): 441-65. 

McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Context (New York, 1995) 

Montrose, Louis, "The Work of Gender in the Discourse of Discovery," Representations 33 (Winter, 1991): 1-41. 

Pederson, Susan. “National Bodies, Unspeakable Acts: The Sexual Politics of Colonial Policy-making.” Journal of Modern History 63 (4) (December 1991): 647-680. 

Robertson, Claire C., and Martin A. Klein, Women and Slavery in Africa (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1983) 

Sinha, Mrinalini, Colonial Masculinity: The 'manly Englishman' and the 'effeminate Bengali' in the Late Nineteenth Century (Manchester, 1995) 

Stoler, Ann Laura, "Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in Twentieth Century Colonial Cultures." American Ethnologist 16 (1989) 

Stoler, Ann Laura, "Rethinking Colonial Categories: European Communities and the Boundaries of Rule," Comparative Studies in Society and History 31, 1 (January 1989): 134-61. 

Stoler, Ann Laura. Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (1995) 

Strobel, Margaret, "Gender, Sex, and Empire." in Adas, Michael, ed., Islamic and European Expansion: The Forging of a Global Order (Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1993) 

Strobel, Margaret, European Women and the Second British Empire (Bloomington, 1991) 

White, Luise, The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1990)

 
 

Field Two: Approaches to Global History

Abu-Lughod, Janet L., Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1989) 

Abu-Lughod, Janet L., "The World System in the Thirteenth Century: Dead-End or Precursor?", in Adas, Michael, ed., Islamic and European Expansion: The Forging of a Global Order (Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1993) 

Bentley, Jerry H., Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (New York, Oxford University Press, 1993) 

Bentley, Jerry H., "Cross-Cultural Interaction and Periodization in World History," American Historical Review (June 1996): 

Bentley, Jerry H. Shapes of World History in Twentieth-Century Scholarship: Essays on Global and Comparative History, (Washington, American Historical Association, 1996) 

Benton, Laura. "From the World System Perspective to Institutional World History: Culture and Economy in Global Theory," Journal of World History 7 (1996): 261-95. 

Braudel, Fernand. Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800 (London, 1983) 

Bright, Charles and Michael Geyer, "For a Unified History of the World in the Twentieth Century," Radical History Review 39 (1987): 69-91. 

Chaudhuri, K. N. Asia Before Europe: Economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)

Crosby, Alfred, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (New York, Cambridge University Press, 1984) 

Curtin, Philip, Cross-Cultural Trade in World History (New York, Cambridge University Press, 1984) 

Curtin, Philip, The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990) 

Duplessis, Robert S., "The Partial Transition to World Systems Analysis in Early Modern European History," Radical History Review 39 (1987): 11-27. 

Duplessis, Robert S., Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe (1997) 

Eaton, Richard, "Islamic History as Global History," in Adas, Michael, ed., Islamic and European Expansion: The Forging of a Global Order (Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1993) 

Frank, Andre Gunder, "A Plea for World System History," Journal of World History 2:1 (Spring, 1991): 1-28. 

Frank, Andre Gunder and Barry K. Gills, eds., The World System. 500 Years or 5000? (New York, Routledge, 1993) 

Geyer, Michael and Charles Bright, "World History in a Global Age," American Historical Review 100 (October 1995): 1034-60. 

Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989)

Hodgson, Marshall. Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam, and World History, edited by Edmund Burke III (New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993) 

Jewsiewicki, Bogumil, "The African Prism of Immanuel Wallerstein," Radical History Review 39 (1987): 50-68. 

Lapidus, Ira, A Histroy of Islamic Societies (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988) 

Mazlish, Bruce. The New Global History (New York: Routledge, 2006)

McNeill, William H., Plagues and Peoples. (New York, Anchor Books, 1998) 

O'Brien, Patrick. "European Economic Development: The Contribution of the Periphery," Economic History Review 35 (1982): 1-18, 580-3. 

Shaffer, Linda. "Southernization," Journal of World History 5 (Spring 1994): 1-22. 

Smith, Alan K. "Where was the Periphery?: The Wider World and the Core of the World Economy," Radical History Review 39 (1987): 28-48. 

Smith, Neil, Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space (New York, Basil Blackwell, 1991) 

Stern, Steve. "Feudalism, Capitalism, and the World-System in the Perspective of Latin America and the Caribbean," American Historical Review (1988) See also replies by Wallerstein and Stern 

Tracy, James D., ed., The Rise of the Merchant Empires (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991) 

Voll, John "Islam as a Special World System," Journal of World History 5 (1994): 213-226. 

Wallerstein, Immanuel. The Modern World System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750 (New York, Academic Press, 1980) 

Wallerstein, Immanuel. The Modern World System III: The Second Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1600-1750 (New York, Academic Press, 1989) 

Williams, Eric. Capitalism and Slavery (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1984) 

Wolf, Eric. Europe and the People Without History (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1982) 

Wright, Donald R., The World and a Very Small Place in Africa (London, M. E. Shapre, 1997) 
 
 

Field Three: Colonialism and Imperialism

Adas, Michael. "'High' Imperialism and the 'New' History," in Adas, Michael, Islamic and European Expansion: The Forging of a Global Order (Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1993) 

Adas, Michael. Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Domination (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1989) 

Arnold, David, Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth Century India (Berkeley, 1993) 

Baumgart, Winfried, Imperialism: The Idea and Reality of British and French Colonial Expansion (New York, Oxford University Press, 1987) 

Baumgart, Winfried, "German Imperialism in Historical Perspective," in Arthur J. Knoll and Lewis H. Gann, eds. Germans in the Tropics: Essays in German Colonial History (New York, Greenwood Press, 1987) 

Betts, Raymond, France and Decolonization (New York, St. Martin's Press, 1991) 

Brantlinger, Patrick, Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism: 1830-1914 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988)

Cain, P. J., and A. G. Hopkins. British Imperialism, 1688-2000 (Harlow, England: Longman, 2002)

Cain, P.J. and Hopkins, "The Political Economy of British Expansion Overseas, 1750-1914," Economic History Review 33 (Nov. 1988) 

Cairns, H. Alan C. Prelude to Imperialism; British Reactions to Central African Society, 1840-1890 (London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1965)

Cohen, William, The French Encounter with Africans: White Response to Blacks, 1530-1880 (Bloomington, 1980) 

Cooper, Frederick, and Ann Laura Stoler. Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (Berkeley, Calif: Univ. of California Press, 1997)

Cook, Scott B. Colonial Encounters in the Age of High Imperialism (New York, Harper Collins, 1996) 

Darwin, John. Britain and Decolonization: The Retreat of Empire in the Postwar World (New York, St. Martin's Press, 1988)

Davin, Anna. "Imperialism and Motherhood," in Raphael Samuel, ed., Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity, 1989. 

Dirks, Nicholas B. Colonialism and Culture. The Comparative studies in society and history book series (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1992)

Dirks, Nicholas B. The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006)

Doyle, Michael W. Empires. Cornell studies in comparative history (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986) 

Gouda, Frances. Dutch Culture Overseas: Colonial Practice in the Netherlands Indies, 1900-1942 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1995) 

Guha, Ranajit. Dominance without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997)

Headrick, Daniel R. The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1981)

Hobsbawm, Eric. J. Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day. Penguin economic history of Britain, v. 3 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990)

Hobsbawm, Eric, The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 (New York, 1987) 

Hopkins, A.G. "The Victorians and Africa: A Reconsideration of the Occupation of Egypt, 1882." Journal of African History 27 (1986). 

Hyam, Ronald. Britain's Imperial Century, 1815-1914: A Study of Empire and Expansion. Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002) 

Jameson, Fredric. "Modernism and Imperialism," in Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, and Edward W. Said. Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990)  

Kemp, Tom. Theories of Imperialism (London: Dobson, 1967)

Lewis, David Levering, The Race to Fashoda: European Colonialism and African Resistance in the Scramble for Africa (New York, 1987) 

MacKenzie, John M. Imperialism and Popular Culture (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986)

Mommsen, Wolfgang J. Theories of Imperialism (New York: Random House, 1980)

Osterhammel, Jürgen. Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (Princeton: M. Wiener, 1997)

Platt, D.C.M. "Economic Factors in British Policy during the 'New Imperialism,'" Past and Present 39 (1968): 120-38. 

Platt, D. C. M. Finance, Trade, and Politics in British Foreign Policy 1815-1914 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968)

Robinson, Ronald Edward, John Gallagher, and Alice Denny. Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism (London: Macmillan, 1981)

Said, Edward, Orientalism (New York, Vintage Books, 1992) 

Scott, James C. Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990)

Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1998)

Thomas, Nicholas. Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel, and Government (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994)

Wehler, Hans-Ulrich, "Bismarck's Imperialism, 1862-1890," Past and Present 48 (August, 1970): 119-55. 

Wurgaft, Lewis D. The Imperial Imagination: Magic and Myth in Kipling's India (Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press, 1983)
 
 

Field Four: Nationalisms

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of  Nationalism. rev. and extended ed. (New York: Verso, 1991)  

Bhabha, Homi K, ed.,. Nation and Narration (London: Routledge, 1990)  

Balibar, Etienne, and Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein. Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities (London: Verso, 1991) 

Brubaker, Rogers. Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992)

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Provincializing Europe Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Princeton studies in culture/power/history. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000) 

Chatterjee, Partha. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse? Third World books (London: Zed Books for the United Nations University, 1986) 

Chatterjee, Partha. The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton studies in culture/power/history (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993)

Davin, Anna. "Imperialism and Motherhood," in Raphael Samuel, ed., Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity. History workshop series (London: Routledge, 1989)  

Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. New perspectives on the past (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983)

Hayes, Carlton. "The Rise of Nationalism," in Hayes, Carlton J. Hayes,  Essays on Nationalism (New York: Macmillan Co, 1926)  

Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds., The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983) 

Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990)  

Kedourie, Elie. Nationalism (London: Hutchinson, 1960)

Kohn, Hans. The Idea of Nationalism, A Study in Its Origins and Background (New York: Macmillan Co, 1944) 

Low, D. A., ed. Congress and the Raj: Facets of the Indian Struggle, 1917-47. Columbia, Mo: South Asia Books, 1977) introduction only

George Mosse, Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectability and Abnormal Sexuality in Modern Europe (New York: H. Fertig, 1985) 

Noiriel, Gérard. The French Melting Pot: Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity. Contradictions of modernity, v. 5. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996) 

Eley, Geoff, and Ronald Grigor Suny. Becoming National: A Reader (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996)

Parker, Andrew. Nationalisms & Sexualities (New York: Routledge, 1992) 

Peter Sahlins, Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989) 

Smith, Anthony D. Theories of Nationalism 1983; The Ethnic Origins of Nations 1986; and National Identity. 1991. 

Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 (Stanford, Calf.: Stanford University Press, 1976)