Architects of World History

Kenneth R. Curtis is Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach. His most recent publication, co-authored with Valerie Hansen, is the second edition of Voyages in World History (2013). The late Jerry H Bentley was Professor of History at the University of Hawaii and editor of the Journal of World History. He wrote written extensively on the cultural history of early modern Europe and on cross-cultural interactions in world history.

• Notes on Contributors vii1 Architects of World History 1Kenneth R. Curtis2 En Route to World Environmental History 30J.R. McNeill3 Gender Intersections 56Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks4 No Great Divergence? Reaching World History Through East Asian Studies 81Kenneth Pomeranz5 Cultural and Religious Exchanges 108Dominic Sachsenmaier6 Law and World History 134Lauren Benton7 Africa in the World: From National Histories to Global Connections 159Kerry Ward8 Big History 190David Christian9 In Search of a Global Cultural History 215Jerry H. Bentley and Karen Louise Jolly, foreword by Alan KarrasIndex 238