"Today, as globalization deepens daily and the world becomes increasingly integrated, the time has come to revise the conventional Euro-centric view on world history. The author has been exploring for several years now how best to create a new world history. The world history that we learn and...

This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World-the world’s first “global economy”-from a longue durée perspective. Spanning from antiquity to the nineteenth century, these essays move beyond the usual focus on...

Im Zeitalter der Globalisierung muss auch die Geschichte neue Wege gehen und über die Grenzen der jeweils eigenen Nation hinausblicken. Entsprechend bildet die neue Reihe Globalgeschichte ein Forum für Bücher, die Beziehungen zwischen verschiedenen Gesellschaften und Regionen sowie ihre...

"Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity's story has always been on a global scale, and this history deeply informs the present. In this book, Jeffrey D. Sachs,...