The new global history

The New Global History

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-131

  Mazlish, Bruce ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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References (88)

1. Melvin Richter, "Conceptualizing the Contestable: 'Begriffsgeschichte' and Political Concepts," in Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte, ed. Erich Rothaker (Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 2000), 138.
2. C. A. Bayly, " 'Archaic' and 'Modern' Globalization in the Eurasian and African Arena, c. 1750-1850," in Globalization in World History, ed. A. G Hopkins (Pimlico: London, 2002), 48-49.
3. Sylvia Walby, "The Myth of the Nation-state: Theorizing Society and Politics in a Global Era," Sociology, vol. 37, no. 3 (2003), 5.
4. A new and nuanced way of viewing the Treaty of Westphalia and its significance can be found in Benno Teschke, "Theorizing the Westphalian System of States: International Relations from Absolutism to Capitalism," European Journal of International Relations, vol. 8, no. 1 (2002).
5. Adam David Morton, "The Age of Absolutism: Capitalism, the Modern States-system and International Relations," Review of International Studies (2005), 31.
6. James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), 6
7. Martin Van Creveld, The Rise and Decline of the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 40.
8. Thomas A. Brady, Jr., "The Rise of Merchant Empires, 1400-1700," in The Political Economy of Merchant Empires, ed. James D. Tracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 119.
9. Giles Milton, Samurai William (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002), 10.
10. Globalization in World History, ed. A. G. Hopkins (Pimlico: London, 2002), 3.
11. Elizabeth Elbourne, "Word Made Flesh: Christianity, Modernity, and Cultural Colonialism in the Work of Jean and John Comarofff," American Historical Review, vol. 108, no. 2 (April 2003), 438.
12. See, for example, Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-century Atlantic Economy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999).
13. Ulrich Beck, "From Industrial Society to the Risk Society," Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 9, no. 1 (February 1992), 102. The next quote is from p. 98.
14. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Collected Works, Vol. 6, 1845-8 (New York: International Publishers, 1976), 345.
15. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, tr. Talcott Parsons (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958), 13 and 17.
16. Quoted in Albert O. Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977), 74, fn. b.
17. G. Barraclough, An Introduction to Contemporary History (London: C.A. Watts & Co., 1964), has already been mentioned as an early work leading up to the promised land of global history.
18. Michael Geyer and Charles Bright, "World History in a Global Age," The American Historical Review, vol. 100, no. 4, (October 1995), 1034-60, come close to crossing the boundary between world history, traditionally conceived, and what I am calling New Global History. Their ambivalence is reflected in their title. The article also offers a valuable bibliography.
19. William H. McNeill, "The Changing Shape of World History," History and Theory Theme Issue 34 "World Historians and Their Critics," 14.
20. Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society, Vol. I The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996), 92.
21. Quoted in Charles Coulston Gillespie, Genesis and Geology (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1951), 104.
22. E. H. Carr, What Is History? (London: Penguin, 1961), 199.
23. An interesting book in this regard is Peter N. Stearns, Global Outrage: The Impact of World Opinion on Contemporary History (Oxford: Oneworld, 2005).
24. See, for example, Karl Moore and David Lewis, Birth of the Multinational: 2000 Years of Ancient Business History-From Ashur to Augustus (Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press, 1999).
25. The new atlas, Global Inc. (New York: New Press, 2003), 1
26. Karl Jaspers, Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte, quoted in Martin Albrow, The Global Age (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), 75.
27. Cf. Chapter 6, "The Hijacking of Global Society." 6 An early and classic treatment of this space race is Walter A. McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age (New York: Basic Books, 1985).
28. Quoted in Matthew Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 27.
29. Quoted in the very interesting article by Fernando Coronil, "Towards a Critique of Globalcentrism: Speculations on Capitalism's Nature," Public Culture vol. 12, no. 2, (2000), 359.
30. Cf. Charles S. Maier, "The Collapse of Communism: Approaches for a Future History," History Workshop Journal, vol. 31 (1991), 34-59.
31. An interesting account is given in Pankaj Mishra, "The Real Afghanistan," New York Review of Books, March 10, 2005, 44-8.
32. Quoted in Stephen Jay Gould, "Darwin and Paley Meet the Invisible Hand," Natural History, vol. 11 (1990), p. 8.
33. Quoted in Fania Oz-Salzberger, "Civil Society in the Scottish Enlightenment," in Civil Society: History and Possibilities, ed. Sudipta Kaviraj and Sunil Khilnani (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 69-70.
34. See, for example, Lester M. Salamon's article in Foreign Affairs, vol. 73, no. 4 (July/August 1994), for alternative language.
35. Michael Edwards, Civil Society (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2004), 21 and 17. It should be clear from what follows that I often use the term NGO as a generic term despite its variants.
36. Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations since 1875, ed. John Boli and George M. Thomas (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999), 14.
37. William Korey, NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "A Curious Grapevine" (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998), 29.
38. Paul Gordon Lauren, The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998).
39. Jan Aart Scholte, Democratizing the Global Economy: The Role of Civil Society (first published 2003 by the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalism, University of Warwick), 2.
40. Helmut K. Anheier, Civil Society: Management, Evaluation, Policy (London: Earthscan, 2004), 20.
41. See, for example, Civil Society in the Muslim World, ed. Amyn B. Sajoo (London: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2002), 26
42. Thomas Metzger, "The Western Concept of the Civil Society in the Context of Chinese History," Hoover Institution, Hoover Essay (see the website http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/he/21/a.html).
43. Global Civil Society 2003, ed. Mary Kaldor, Helmut Anheier, and Marlies Glasius (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 4.
44. For a similar view, see John Keene, "Global Civil Society?," in Global Civil Society 2001, ed. Helmut Anheier, Marlies Glasius and Mary Kaldor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 32. The point still remains arguable, however, in certain circles, where MNCs are excluded from being a part of civil society.
45. For a renewed defense of cosmopolitanism in the global epoch, see Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (New York: W.W. Norton, 2006).
46. Mary Kaldor, "A Decade of Humanitarian Intervention: The Role of Global Civil Society," in Global Civil Society 2001, 109.
47. Mary Kaldor, Helmut Anheier, and Marlies Glasius, "Global Civil Society in an Era of Regressive Globalisation," in Global Civil Society 2003, 5.
48. Cf. Edward Luther Stevenson, Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, 2 vols. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921).
49. Mehdi Mozaffari, "Bin Laden: Terrorism and Islamism," paper published by Department of Political Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark, 2001.
50. For Khomeini and his sense of humiliation, see Bruce Mazlish, "The Hidden Khomeini," in The Leader, the Led, and the Psyche (Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1990). For the fatwa of February 23, 1998
51. Osama Bin Laden, available at http://jihadunspun.com/Bin Ladens-Network/statements/jajac.html.
52. Cf. Martin Shaw, Theory of the Global State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
53. National Security Strategy of the United States of America. Available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html.
54. P. Boyer, "General Clark's Battles," New Yorker, November 17, 2003, 80.
55. Carl Bowman, "Survey Report: the Evidence for Empire," The Hedgehog Review, vol. 5, no. 3 (2003), 78 and 74.
56. Max Weber, Economy and Society, ed. Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich, 2 vols. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978), Vol. I, 637.
57. Roland Robertson, Globalization (London: Sage, 1992), 173-4.
58. Furukawa Shun'ichi, "Decentralization in Japan," in Japan's Road to Pluralism: Transforming Local Communities in the Global Era, ed. Furukawa Shun'ichi and Manju Toshihiro, Chapter 1 (Tokyo: Japan Center for Economic Exchange, 2003), 23.
59. Sylvia Walby, "The Myth of the Nation-state: Theorizing Society and Politics in a Global Era," Sociology (2003) 37, no. 3, 531-48.
60. Cf. on these matters my book A New Science: The Breakdown of Connections and the Birth of Sociology (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993; orig. hardback, Oxford University Press, 1989).
61. Quoted in László Kontler, "Savages Noble and Ignoble. Civilisation and Race in George Forster's 'Voyage Round the World' (1777)", MS, 1.
62. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. J. P. Mayer, tr. George Lawrence (New York: Doubleday, 1969), 63.
63. Sophia Rosenfeld, "Citizens of Nowhere in Particular: Cosmopolitanism, Writing, and Political Engagement in Eighteenth-century Europe," National Identities, vol. 4, no. 1 (March 2002), 25-43, is an excellent article in which to pursue some of the themes raised here about cosmopolitanism.
64. Quoted in Albert O. Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977), 74.
65. Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 52, 64 and 57.
66. Bruce Robbins, Secular Vocations (London: Verso, 1993), 196-7.
67. Paul Rabinow, "Representations Are Social Facts," in Writing Culture, ed. James Clifford and George E. Marcus (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), 258.
68. Lila Abu-Lughod, "The Interpretation of Culture(s) after Television," Representations, no. 59 (Summer 1997), 121-3.
69. The quotations are in regard to Celia Applegate, A Nation of Provincials: The German Idea of Heimat (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)
70. Alon Confino and Ajay Skaria, "The Local Life of Nationhood," 5.
71. See Maiken Umbach's review of Abigail Green, Fatherlands: State-Building and Nationhood in Nineteenth-century Germany (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. xxxiii, no. 4 (Spring 2003), 648. As can readily be seen, there is something of a cottage industry in regard to this subject.
72. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. Thomas H. D. Mahoney (New York: The Liberal Arts Press, 1955), 53. As can be seen, I do not accept this statement as the final word on the subject.
73. The Economist, April 13, 2002 "A Special Survey of Television," p. 13.
74. World Paper, July 3, 2002.
75. A model study in this regard, though for an earlier period and a more restricted subject, is Thomas L. Haskell, "Capitalism and the Origins of the Humanitarian Sensibility," American Historical Review, vol. 90, nos. 2 and 3 (April and June 1985).
76. Sven Beckert, The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). Incidentally, it was only natural that Beckert would then go on to write about cotton as a global commodity.
77. For more on this subject see my The Uncertain Sciences (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).
78. New Yorker, May 19, 2003, 56.
79. Christina Klein, Cold-War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 14.
80. Jürgen Habermas, The Postnational Constellation, tr. Max Pensky (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001), 71.
81. Quoted in Joan Acocella, "Blocked," New Yorker, June 14 and 21, 2004, 128.
82. The classic work is Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1953).
83. Cf. the account by Gunnar Broberg, "Homo sapiens. Linnaeus's Classification of Man," in Linnaeus: The Man and His Work, ed. Tore Frängsmyr (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), 176.
84. Lynn Hunt, "The Psycho-cultural Origins of Human Rights," unpub. MS.
85. G. F. W. Hegel, Philosophy of Right, tr. T. M. Knox (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1942) 134, #209.
86. See Martin W. Lewis and Kären E. Wigen, The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).
87. John Tomlinson, Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Introduction (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), is an excellent book with which to begin the inquiry.
88. See Arno J. Mayer, The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War (New York: Pantheon Books, 1981), for an important reminder of how the past lingers on.