The studies offered in this volume integrate the history of wage labor, of slavery, and of indentured labor. They … contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. …

This volume suggests a new way of doing global history. Instead of offering a sweeping and generalizing overview of the … past, we propose a "micro-spatial" approach, combining micro-history with the concept of space. A focus on primary sources … and awareness of the historical discontinuities and unevennesses characterizes the global history that emerges here. We …

thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter … inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world. Ever since humans began to farm, herd livestock, and pass on …