Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:09:47 PCT
From: FAHEYDM@CASMAIL.MUOHIO.EDU,
Miami University of Ohio
Reading List for Graduate Students at Miami
University, Oxford, OH 45056-1618, USA
This is a working draft offered for criticism,
suggestions for additions and deletions, etc. The
principal compilers of the draft are Judith
Zinsser and David Fahey. Their e-mail addresses
at Miami are zinssejp@miamiu.muohio.edu and
dfahey@miamiu.muohio.edu
WORLD/COMPARATIVE MASTER'S FIELD & DOCTORAL
MINOR FIELD, April 1995
Master's degree students need to pick one
geographical area of specialization and Ph.D.
students two geographical areas, one of which must
be other than the United States and Western
Europe; all candidates must take HST 796 Modern
Theories of History III (theories of world
history). All candidates must demonstrate
facility in one language other than their dominant
learning language. Together with their advisor
they should pick 25 books from this core list, to
be supplemented with 5 others (either from this
list or from more specialized bibliographies) for
a total of 30 titles required for the master's
field and doctoral minor field. Titles marked
with an asterisk are strongly recommended. For
diversity, it is suggested that no more than one
book by an author be counted toward this reading
requirement. The list also suggests some important
articles, journals, reference works, and listserv
groups.
The following journals are of particular
value for world and comparative studies.
JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY [published by
University of Hawaii Press for the World History
Association]
REVIEW (edited by Immanuel Wallerstein,
Fernand Braudel Center, State University of New
York at Binghamton) [world-systems]
COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN SOCIETY AND HISTORY
COMPARATIVE CIVILIZATIONS REVIEW
[International Society for the Comparative Study
of Civilizations]
INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW
JOURNAL OF WORLD SYSTEMS RESEARCH
[electronic/email]
JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY [up-dating topical
and regional bibliographies]
RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW
WORLD HISTORY BULLETIN [published by World
History Association]
Journals of regional associations offer
specialized information, such as: LATIN AMERICAN
RESEARCH REVIEW, JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, JOURNAL
OF AFRICAN HISTORY, etc.
There are useful Internet listserv groups:
H-World, World-L, WSN (world systems network)
The most recent comprehensive bibliography in
all fields is, Mary Beth Norton, ed., AMERICAN
HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S GUIDE TO HISTORICAL
LITERATURE (3rd. ed.,1995), ch. 3, "World
History," by Kevin Reilly and Lynda Norene
Shaffer, provides a good introduction to
relevant publications
SELECTED BOOKS AND ARTICLES
*Abu-Lughod, Janet L., BEFORE EUROPEAN
HEGEMONY: THE WORLD SYSTEM A.D. 1250-1350
(Oxford UP, 1989)
Adas, Michael, PROPHETS OF REBELLION:
MILLENARIAN PROTEST MOVEMENTS AGAINST EUROPEAN
COLONIAL ORDER (1979)
*-------------, ed., ISLAMIC & EUROPEAN
EXPANSION: THE FORGING OF A GLOBAL ORDER (Temple
UP, 1993)
-------------, MACHINES AS THE MEASURE OF
MEN: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND IDEOLOGIES OF
WESTERN DOMINANCE (1989)
*Adshead, S. A. M. CENTRAL ASIA IN WORLD
HISTORY (1993)
-------------, CHINA IN WORLD HISTORY (1988)
Allardyce, Gilbert, "Toward World History:
American Historians and the Coming of the World
History Course," JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY 1
(Spring 1990)
Anderson, Benedict, IMAGINED COMMUNITIES:
REFLECTIONS ON THE ORIGIN AND SPREAD OF
NATIONALISM (1983)
Appiah, Kewame Anthony, IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE:
AFRICA IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE (1992)
*Armes, Roy, THIRD WORLD FILM MAKING AND THE
WEST(1987)
Aslanbigui, Siahid, Steven Pressman and Gale
Summerfeld, WOMEN IN THE AGE OF ECONOMIC
TRANSFORMATION: GENDER IMPACT OF REFORMS IN POST-
SOCIALIST AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (1994)
Bairoch, Paul, ECONOMICS AND WORLD HISTORY:
MYTHS AND PARADOXES (1993)
Bayly, C. A., INDIAN SOCIETY AND THE MAKING
OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE (1988)
*Bennett, A. Leroy, INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS: PRINCIPLES AND ISSUES (1988)
*Bentley, Jerry H., OLD WORLD ENCOUNTERS:
CROSS-CULTURAL CONTACTS AND EXCHANGES IN
PRE-MODERN TIMES(Oxford UP, 1993)
*Blaut, J. M., THE COLONIZER'S MODEL OF THE
WORLD: GEOGRAPHICAL DIFFUSIONISM AND EUROCENTRIC
HISTORY(Guilford Press, 1993)
Boahen, A. Adu, ed. UNESCO GENERAL HISTORY OF
AFRICA, vol. VII (AFRICA UNDER COLONIAL DOMINATION
1880-1935) and vol. VIII (*AFRICA SINCE 1935 ed. Ali A.
Mazrui) (1990, 1993) (See the whole series for earlier periods)
Boahen, A. Bu, AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES ON
COLONIALISM(1987)
Braudel, Fernand, A HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS
(translated from the French, 1995)
----------------, CIVILIZATION AND
CAPITALISM, 15TH-18TH CENTURY, 3 VOLS. (translated
from the French,1981-84)*vol. 3
Burke, Edmund, III, ed., GLOBAL CRISES AND
SOCIAL MOVEMENT: ARTISANS, PEASANTS, POPULISTS,
AND THE WORLD ECONOMY (1988)
*Canny, Nicholas, EUROPEANS ON THE MOVE:
STUDIES ON EUROPEAN MIGRATION, 1500-1800 (1994)
Chase-Dunn, Christopher K. and Thomas D.
Hall, CORE/PERIPHERY RELATIONS IN PRECAPITALIST
WORLDS (Westview Press, 1991)
Chaudhuri, Nupur and Margaret Strobel, eds.,
WESTERN WOMEN AND IMPERIALISM: COMPLICITY AND
RESISTANCE (1992)
*Chaudhuri, K. N., ASIA BEFORE EUROPE:
ECONOMY AND CIVILISATION OF THE INDIAN OCEAN FROM
THE RISE OF ISLAM TO 1750 (1991)
----------------, TRADE AND CIVILISATION IN THE INDIAN
OCEAN (1985)
Chinweizu, THE WEST AND THE REST OF US: WHITE
PREDATORS, BLACK SLAVERS, AND THE AFRICAN ELITE
(1975)
Chirot, Daniel, SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE MODERN
ERA (1986) (first edition 1977)
*Codanis, Peter A., "Distant Thunder: the
Creation of a World Market in Rice and the
Transformation It Wrought," AMERICAN HISTORICAL
REVIEW 98 (4) (October 1993): 1050-1078
Collins, Robert O., ed., HISTORICAL PROBLEMS
OF IMPERIAL AFRICA (1993)
Coombes, Annie E., REINVENTING AFRICA:
MUSEUMS, MATERIAL CULTURE AND POPULAR IMAGINATION
IN LATE VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN ENGLAND (1994)
Cooper, Frederick, "Conflict and Connection:
Rethinking Colonial African History," AHR FORUM,
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW (December 1994):
1516-1545
*Cooper, Frederick, Allen F. Isaacman, Florencia
E. Mallon, William Roseberry, and Steve J. Stern,
CONFRONTING HISTORICAL PARADIGMS: PEASANTS, LABOR,
AND THE CAPITALIST WORLD SYSTEM IN AFRICA AND
LATIN AMERICA (1993)
Costello, Paul, WORLD HISTORIANS AND THEIR
GOALS: TWENTIETH CENTURY ANSWERS TO MODERNISM
(1993) [includes Spengler, Toynbee, McNeill]
*Crosby, Alfred W., ECOLOGICAL IMPERIALISM:
THE BIOLOGICAL EXPANSION OF EUROPE, 900-1900
(1986) (also wrote overlapping books, THE
COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE, 1972, and GERMS, SEEDS, AND
ANIMALS, 1994)
Curtin, Philip. D., THE RISE AND FALL OF THE
PLANTATION COMPLEX: ESSAYS IN ATLANTIC HISTORY
(1990)
*-----------------, CROSS-CULTURAL TRADE IN
WORLD HISTORY (Cambridge UP, 1984)
Davidson, Basil, THE BLACK MAN'S BURDEN:
AFRICA AND THE CURSE OF THE NATION STATE (1992)
Dirlik, Arif, "The Postcolonial Aura: Third
World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism,"
CRITICAL INQUIRY 20 (Winter, 1994)
Elvin, Mark, THE PATTERN OF THE CHINESE PAST
(1971)
Embree, Ainslee, and Carol Gluck, ASIA IN
WESTERN AND WORLD HISTORY: A GUIDE FOR TEACHING
(1995)
Esedebe, P.O., PAN-AFRICANISM: THE IDEA AND
THE MOVEMENT (1982)
Feierman, Steven, "African Histories and the
Dissolution of World History," in Robert H. Bates
and others, eds., AFRICA AND THE DISCIPLINES: THE
CONTRIBUTIONS OF RESEARCH IN AFRICA TO THE SOCIAL
SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES (1993)
*Green, William A., HISTORY, HISTORIANS, AND
THE DYNAMICS OF CHANGE (Praeger, 1993),
"Introduction: Global Perspective"; ch. 7,
"World-System Analysis" ch. 8, "Environmental
History"; ch. 9, "The Continuing Pursuit of Order"
-----------------, "Periodization in European
and World History," JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY 3(1)
(Spring 1992): 13-53
Guha, Ranajit, "Dominance without Hegemony
and its Historiography," in Ranajit Guha, ed.,
SUBALTERN STUDIES VI: WRITINGS ON SOUTH ASIAN
HISTORY AND SOCIETY (1989)
Gunder Frank, Andre, "The World Economic
System in Asia before European Hegemony,"
HISTORIAN 56 (Winter 1994)
Gunder Frank, Andre and Barry K. Gills, eds.,
THE WORLD SYSTEM: FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OR FIVE
THOUSAND?(Routledge, 1993)
Hall, Thomas D. and Christopher Chase-Dunn,
"Forward into the Past: World-Systems before
1500," SOCIOLOGICAL FORUM 9 (1994)
Harris, Joseph E., ed., GLOBAL DIMENSIONS OF
THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (2nd ed., 1993)
Heuman, G. ed., OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE.
RUNAWAYS, RESISTANCE AND MARRONAGE IN AFRICA AND
THE NEW WORLD (1986)
*Headrick, Daniel R., THE TENTACLES OF
PROGRESS: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER IN THE AGE OF
IMPERIALISM, 1850-1940 (1991)
Hobsbawm, Eric and Terence Ranger, THE
INVENTION OF TRADITION (1993) (introduction,
chapters 5 and 6)
------------, NATIONS AND NATIONALISM SINCE
1780: PROGRAMME, MYTH AND REALITY (1992)
Hodgson, Marshall G. S., RETHINKING WORLD
HISTORY: ESSAYS ON EUROPE, ISLAM, AND WORLD
HISTORY (ed., with introduction and conclusion, by
Edmund Burke, III) (Cambridge UP, 1993)
Hourani, Albert, A HISTORY OF THE ARAB
PEOPLES (1991)
Hughes, Sarah Shaver and Brady Hughes, eds.,
WOMEN IN WORLD HISTORY, 2 VOLS. (1995)
Hughes, Thomas P., NETWORKS OF POWER:
ELECTRIFICATION IN WESTERN SOCIETY, 1880-1930
(1993)
Hugill, Peter J., WORLD TRADE SINCE 1431:
GEOGRAPHY, TECHNOLOGY (1993)
Humphrey, R. Stephens, ISLAMIC HISTORY: A
FRAMEWORK FOR INQUIRY (1988)
Huntington, Samuel and others, THE CLASH OF
CIVILIZATIONS? THE DEBATE (1993)
International Commission for a History of the
Scientific and Cultural Development of Mankind,
HISTORY OF MANKIND, 6 vols. (1963-76)
Israel, Jonathan Irvine, DUTCH PRIMACY IN
WORLD TRADE 1585-1740 (1990)
Jayawardina, Kumari, FEMINISM AND
NATIONALISM IN THE THIRD WORLD (1986)
*Johnson-Odim, Cheryl and Margaret Strobel,
eds., EXPANDING THE BOUNDARIES OF WOMEN'S HISTORY:
ESSAYS ON WOMEN IN THE THIRD WORLD (1992)
Jones, Eric L., GROWTH RECURRING: ECONOMIC
CHANGE IN WORLD HISTORY (1988)
Kennedy, Paul M., PREPARING FOR THE
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (1993)
----------------, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE
GREAT POWERS: ECONOMIC CHANGE AND MILITARY
CONFLICT FROM 1500-2000 (1987)
Kiernan, V.G. ed., "Development, Imperialism
and Some Misconceptions," IMPERIALISM AND ITS
CONTRADICTIONS (1995)
Kolchin, Peter, UNFREE LABOR: AMERICAN
SLAVERY AND RUSSIAN SERFDOM (19 )
Kumar, Krishan, PROPHECY AND PROGRESS: THE
SOCIOLOGY OF INDUSTRIAL AND POSTINDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
(1978)
Lach, Donald F. and Edwin J. Van Kley, ASIA
IN THE MAKING OF EUROPE, VOLS. 1-3 (1965- )
Lamar, Howard, and Leonard Thompson ed., THE
FRONTIER IN HISTORY: NORTH AMERICA AND SOUTH
AFRICA COMPARED (1981)
Lewis, Bernard, THE MUSLIM DISCOVERY OF
EUROPE (1982)
*Levine, Molly Myerowitz, "The Use and Abuse
of Black Athena," AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
(April 1992): 440-464
Lipietz, Alain, MIRAGES AND MIRACLES: THE
CRISES IN GLOBAL FORDISM (1987) Chapters 3 and 4
Loescher, Gil, BEYOND CHARITY: INTERNATIONAL
COOPERATION AND THE GLOBAL REFUGEE CRISIS (1993)
Manning, Patrick, SLAVERY AND AFRICAN LIFE,
OCCIDENTAL, ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN SLAVE TRADES
(1990)
Mazlish, Bruce & Ralph Buultjens, eds.,
CONCEPTUALIZING GLOBAL HISTORY (1993)
McNeill, William H., "THE RISE OF THE WEST
after Twenty-Five Years," JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY
1 (Spring 1990)
*--------------, THE RISE OF THE WEST: A
HISTORY OF THE HUMAN COMMUNITY (1963)
--------------, PLAGUES AND PEOPLES
(1976)
---------------, THE PURSUIT OF POWER:
TECHNOLOGY,ARMED FORCE, AND SOCIETY SINCE A.D.
1000 (1982)
---------------, THE HUMAN CONDITION: AN
ECOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL VIEW (1980)
McVay, Pamela, "The World, the Indian Ocean,
and Southeast Asia, 1500-1800: Working toward
Asia-Centered Historiography," THEMATICA 1 (1994)
Meinig, D. W., THE SHAPING OF AMERICA: A
GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE ON 5000 YEARS OF HISTORY,
2 VOLS. (1986)
Miller, Montserrat Marti, and Peter N.
Stearns, "Applying Cognitive Learning Approaches
in History Teaching: An Experiment in a World
History Course," HISTORY TEACHER 28:2 (Feb. 1995)
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, Ann Russo, and
Lourdes Torres, eds., THIRD WORLD WOMEN AND THE
POLITICS OF FEMINISM (1994)
Momsen, Janet, WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE
THIRD WORLD (1991)
Moore, Barrington Jr., SOCIAL ORIGINS OF
DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY (1966)
Murray, D. R., "Slavery and the Slave Trade:
New Comparative Approaches" LATIN AMERICAN
RESEARCH REVIEW 28 (1) (1993): 150-161
Offen, Karen, Ruth Roach Pierson, and Jane
Rendall, eds., WRITING WOMEN'S HISTORY:
INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES (1991)
*Organization of American Historians,
RESTORING WOMEN TO HISTORY (teaching packets)
Pacey, Arnold, TECHNOLOGY IN WORLD
CIVILIZATION: A THOUSAND-YEAR HISTORY (1990)
Pannikar, K. M., ASIA AND WESTERN DOMINANCE
(1953)
Phelan, John Leddy, THE HISPANIZATION OF THE
PHILIPPINES (1959)
Ponting, Clive, A GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD:
THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT
CIVILIZATIONS (1991)
Porter, Bernard, THE LION'S SHARE: A SHORT
HISTORY OF BRITISH IMPERIALISM, 1880-1983 (2nd
ed., 1984)
Pratt, Mary Louise, IMPERIAL EYES: TRAVEL
WRITING AND TRANSCULTURATION (1992)
Randall, Vicky, WOMAN AND POLITICS: AN
INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE (1987)
Reilly, Kevin, ed., WORLD HISTORY [Selected course outlines and
reading lists from US colleges and universities] (3rd ed., 1991)
Said, Edward, ORIENTALISM (1978)
Schneider, Jane and Rayna Rapp, eds.,
ARTICULATING HIDDEN HISTORIES: EXPLORING THE
INFLUENCE OF ERIC R. WOLF(1995), introduction
Schwartz, Stuart B., ed., IMPLICIT
UNDERSTANDINGS: OBSERVING, REPORTING, AND
REFLECTING ON THE ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN EUROPEANS AND
OTHER PEOPLES IN THE EARLY MODERN ERA (1994)
Scott, James C., WEAPONS OF THE WEAK (1987)
Shaffer, Lynne Norene, MARITIME SOUTHEAST
ASIA 300 B.C. TO A.D. 1528 (1995)
Shannon, Thomas Richard, AN INTRODUCTION TO
THE WORLD SYSTEM (1989)
Skidmore, Thomas E. and Peter H. Smith,
MODERN LATIN AMERICA (most recent ed.)
*Skocpol, Theda, STATES AND SOCIAL
REVOLUTION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FRANCE,
RUSSIA AND CHINA (1979)
--------------, "A Critical Review of
Barrington Moore's 'Social Origins of Dictatorship
and Democracy," POLITICS AND SOCIETY 4 (1973)
--------------, "Wallerstein's World
Capitalist System: A Theoretical and Historical
Critique," AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY 82 (1977)
Smith, Tony, ed., THE END OF THE EUROPEAN
EMPIRE: DECOLONIZATION AFTER WORLD WAR II (1975)
So, Alvin Y., SOCIAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT:
MODERNIZATION, DEPENDENCY, AND WORLD-SYSTEM
THEORIES (1990)
Solow, Barbara L., SLAVERY AND THE RISE OF
THE ATLANTIC SYSTEM (1991)
Spitzer, Leo, LIVES IN BETWEEN. ASSIMILATION
AND MARGINALITY IN AUSTRIA, BRAZIL, WEST AFRICA
1780-1945 (1988)
*Spurr, David, THE RHETORIC OF EMPIRE:
COLONIAL DISCOURSE IN JOURNALISM, TRAVEL WRITING,
AND IMPERIALISM ADMINISTRATION(1993), excerpts
Ssu-yu, Teng and John K. Fairbank, eds.,
CHINA'S RESPONSE TO THE WEST: A DOCUMENTARY
SURVEY, 1839-1923 (1963)
Stavrianos, L. S., LIFELINES FROM OUR PAST: A
NEW WORLD HISTORY (M. E. Sharpe, 1989/1992)
Stavrianos, L. S., GLOBAL RIFT: THE THIRD
WORLD COMES OF AGE (1981)
Stearns, Peter N. and Herrick Champam, THE
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN WORLD HISTORY (1993)
*Thornton, John, AFRICA AND AFRICANS IN THE
MAKING OF THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1400-1680 (1992)
Tilly, Charles, EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONS
1492-1992 (1994)
Tilly, Louise, "Connections" AMERICAN
HISTORICAL REVIEW 99 (1) (February 1994)
Tracy, James D. ed., THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF
MERCHANT EMPIRES: STATE POWER AND WORLD TRADE
1350-1750 (1991)
[UNESCO], HISTORY OF HUMANITY, ed. S. J. de
Laet, 6 vols. (vol. 1, 1994)
United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, THE STATE OF THE WORLD'S REFUGEES: THE
CHALLENGE OF PROTECTION(Penguin, 1993)
Vansina, Jan, PATHS IN THE RAINFOREST (1990)
Vansina, Jan, LIVING WITH AFRICA (1994)
Viola, Herman J. and Carolyn Margolis, eds.,
SEEDS OF CHANGE (1991)
Voll, John O., ISLAM, CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
IN THE MODERN WORLD (1982)
Von Laue, Theodore H., THE WORLD REVOLUTION
OF WESTERNIZATION: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IN GLOBAL
PERSPECTIVE (1987)
Wallerstein, Immanuel, "World-Systems Analysis: The Second Phase,"
REVIEW, 18 (Spring 1990)
---------------------, THE MODERN
WORLD-SYSTEM (1974-89), 3 VOLS. [published to date
covers from 16th cent. through mid-19th cent.] *vol. I
Wickham-Crowley, Timothy P., GUERRILLAS AND
REVOLUTION IN LATIN AMERICA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
OF INSURGENTS AND REGIMES SINCE 1956 (1992)
Williams, Patrick and Laura Chrisman, eds.,
COLONIAL DISCOURSE AND POST-COLONIAL THEORY: A
READER (1994)
Willis, John E., Jr., "Maritime Asia, 1500-1800: The Interactive
Emergence of European Domination," AMERICAN HISTORICAL
REVIEW 98 (1) (February 1993): 83-105
Wolf, Eric, PEASANT WARS OF THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY (1969)
*-------------, EUROPE AND THE PEOPLE WITHOUT
HISTORY(1982) Young, Robert, WHITE MYTHOLOGIES: WRITING
HISTORY AND THE WEST (1990)
Zinsser, Judith P., FEMINISM & HISTORY
(1993), chs. 1, 2