For most of human history, states and regions were connected by long-distance commerce and war, yet they developed essentially separately. The century after 175

Between 1870 and 1945, advances in communication and transportation simultaneously expanded and shrank the world. In five interpretive essays, A World Connectin

Global Interdependence provides a new account of world history from the end of World War II to the present, an era when transnational communities began to chall

After 1750 the Americas lived political and popular revolutions, the fall of European empires, and the rise of nations as the world faced a new industrial capit

Between 1350 and 1750 the world reached a tipping point of global connectedness. In this volume of the acclaimed series A History of the World, noted internatio