The Prospect of Global History

I. Conceptual Considerations. Introduction: The prospect of global history / James Belich, John Darwin, and Chris Wickham -- Global history and historical sociology / Jürgen Osterhammel -- The economist and global history / Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke -- II. Global Circulations. Unnecessary dependences: illustrating circulation in pre-modern large-scale history / Nicholas Purcell -- A global Middle Ages? / Robert I. Moore -- The Black Death and the spread of Europe / James Belich -- The Qing Empire in the fabric of global history / Matthew W. Mosca -- III. Global Networks. Global history from an Islamic angle / Francis Robinson -- The real American empire / Antony G. Hopkins -- Writing constitutions and writing world history / Linda Colley -- Afterword: History on a global scale / John Darwin