Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: World Society and Its Histories – The Sociology and Global History of Global Social Change
- 2 Every Epoch, Time Frame or Date that Is Solid Melts into Air. Does It? The Entanglements of Global History and World Society
- 3 Periodization in Global History: The Productive Power of Comparing
- 4 Communication, Differentiation and the Evolution of World Society
- 5 Field Theory and Global Transformations in the Long Twentieth Century
- 6 Organization(s) of the World
- 7 Particularly Universal Encounters: Ethnographic Explorations into a Laboratory of World Society
- 8 From the First Sino-Roman War (That Never Happened) to Modern International-cum-Imperial Relations: Observing International Politics from an Evolution Theory Perspective
- 9 Nationalism as a Global Institution: A Historical-Sociological View
- 10 States and Markets: A Global Historical Sociology of Capitalist Governance
- 11 The Impact of Communications in Global History
- 12 The ‘Long Twentieth Century’ and the Making of World Trade Law
- 13 Third-Party Actors, Transparency and Global Military Affairs
- 14 Technical Internationalism and Global Social Change: A Critical Look at the Historiography of the United Nations
- References
- Index
Notes on Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 December 2021
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: World Society and Its Histories – The Sociology and Global History of Global Social Change
- 2 Every Epoch, Time Frame or Date that Is Solid Melts into Air. Does It? The Entanglements of Global History and World Society
- 3 Periodization in Global History: The Productive Power of Comparing
- 4 Communication, Differentiation and the Evolution of World Society
- 5 Field Theory and Global Transformations in the Long Twentieth Century
- 6 Organization(s) of the World
- 7 Particularly Universal Encounters: Ethnographic Explorations into a Laboratory of World Society
- 8 From the First Sino-Roman War (That Never Happened) to Modern International-cum-Imperial Relations: Observing International Politics from an Evolution Theory Perspective
- 9 Nationalism as a Global Institution: A Historical-Sociological View
- 10 States and Markets: A Global Historical Sociology of Capitalist Governance
- 11 The Impact of Communications in Global History
- 12 The ‘Long Twentieth Century’ and the Making of World Trade Law
- 13 Third-Party Actors, Transparency and Global Military Affairs
- 14 Technical Internationalism and Global Social Change: A Critical Look at the Historiography of the United Nations
- References
- Index
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- What in the World?Understanding Global Social Change, pp. viii - xiPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2020