Interactions : : Transregional Perspectives on World History / / ed. by Jerry H. Bentley, Anand A. Yang, Renate Bridenthal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bayly, C. A.,; Beckert, Sven,; Bentley, Jerry H.,; Bright, Charles,; Geyer, Michael,; Karras, Alan L.,; McKeown, Adam,; Palmer, Colin,; Rapp, Stephen H.,; Reeves, Caroline,; Voll, John O.,; Wigen, Kären,
• HerausgeberIn: Bentley, Jerry H.,; Bridenthal, Renate,; Yang, Anand A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; illus.

The essays presented here reflect recent widespread interest in reconsidering the political, geographical, and cultural boundaries conventionally observed by area specialists and others. They intentionally range widely through time and space, dealing with diverse issues and contexts, but each highli...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Regional Histories, Global Processes, Cross-Cultural Interactions
• 2. From Archaic Globalization to International Networks, circa 1600-2000
• 3. Sufi Brotherhoods: Transcultural /Transstate Networks in the Muslim World
• 4. Cotton: A Global History
• 5. From Red Crosses to Golden Arches: China, the Red Cross, and The Hague Peace Conference, 1899-1900
• 6. Constructing Africa: African American Writers before Emancipation
• 7. Migration Control and the Globalization of Borders: China and the United States, 1898-1911
• 8. Smuggling and Its Malcontents
• 9. Cartographies of Connection: Ocean Maps as Metaphors for Interarea History
• 10. Chronology, Crossroads, and Commonwealths: World-Regional Schemes and the Lessons of Caucasia
• 11. Regimes of World Order: Global Integration and the Production of Difference in Twentieth-Century World History
• Contributors
• Index