World Connecting

Emily S. Rosenberg is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Akira Iriye is Charles Warren Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Jürgen Osterhammel is Professor of Modern History at the University of Konstanz. Charles S. Maier is Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History at Harvard University. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Council on Foreign Relations, he has written a number of award-winning books, including Recasting Bourgeois Europe, The Unmasterable Past, Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany, and Once Within Borders. Tony Ballantyne is Professor of History at the University of Otago. Antoinette Burton is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dirk Hoerder is Emeritus Professor of History at Arizona State University. Steven C. Topik is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Allen Wells is Roger Howell, Jr., Professor of History at Bowdoin College. Emily S. Rosenberg is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.

A World Connecting should be of interest to American specialists precisely because of the rich empirical data marshaled, the fruitful hypotheses embedded in the arguments, and the myriad of scholarly works cited and included in the bibliography. This book should become a standard reference tool not only for global history, but also for supplying the wider contexts for conceptualizing American history from a transnational angle... [This] is a very large book of over a thousand pages, and each of the five sections could well command a detailed review in itself. In many ways, the individual chapters qualify as tour-de-force achievements in the agendas they have set. Not only is the material handled in a magisterial fashion, but arresting interpretations also appear at almost every turn. Historians of specific periods of national history like the American Gilded Age will profit from consulting this work.