Writing the history of the global : challenges for the 21st century / edited by Maxine Berg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Global history : approaches and new directions / Maxine Berg -- part I Interpretations : ideas and the making of global history -- Problems in global history / David Washbrook -- Reflections on doing global history / Jan De Vries -- Notes on some discontents in the historical narrative / Jean-Frédéric Schaub -- part II Approaches : methods and methodologies in global history -- Comparison in global history / Prasannan Parthasarathi -- Regions and global history / R. Bin Wong -- Institutions for writing the economic history of the global / Jan Luiten Van Zanden -- part III Shaping global history -- Writing about divergences in global history : some implications for scale, methods, aims, and categories / Kenneth Pomeranz -- The European miracle in global history : an East Asian perspective / Kaoru Sugihara -- part IV Knowledge and global history -- Technology and innovation in global history and in the history of the global / Dagmar Schäfer -- The art of global comparisons / Craig Clunas -- Global objects : contention and entanglement / Glenn Adamson and Giorgio Riello -- part V Round table -- Panel discussion : ways forward and major challenges -- Globe and empire / John Darwin -- Africa and global history / Megan Vaughan -- Writing the history of the global and the state / Peer Vries -- Identity in global history : a reflection / Sufumi So and Billy Kee-Long So.