Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Why We Need Global History; Abstract; One World or Different Worlds?; Globalization or Divergence?; Connections and Dependence: From Subaltern Studies to Comparative History; Eurocentrism and Global History; Selected Bibliography; Chapter 2 Connected Historiographies in Expanding Worlds: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Abstract; Europe and Its Method: One Solution Among Others; History and Philology in Connected Worlds; The Role of History in Imperial Constructions; Asian Universalist Empires and the Role of History Writing

Writing History in European Exclusive EmpiresSelected Bibliography; Chapter 3 Inventing Modernity; Abstract; The Conception of History During the Enlightenment; The Quest for Universality: The Enlightenment and Non-European Worlds; The Nation Versus the Global? History and Its Archives in the Nineteenth Century; History Writing: Philology Against Philosophy; References; Chapter 4 The End of the Old Order: History, Nationalisms, and Totalitarianism; Abstract; The Decline of the West? The Philosophy of History and the Politics of Historical Writing; Birth of the Annales School

Nationalism, the Quest of "Specificity" and Historiographical ConstructionsThe Bolshevik Revolution: The Universality of History Versus Socialism in One Country; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Chapter 5 Global History in the Cold War and Decolonization; Abstract; History and the Construction of Europe; Braudel: Global History or Global Eurocentrism?; The Decolonization of History; The Evolution of Historiography in Communist Worlds; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Chapter 6 Conclusion: Global History in the Face of Globalization and the Return of Nationalisms; Abstract; Index