Competing Visions Of World Order » (ANN)

Sebastian Conrad is Assistant Professor of Modern History, Free University, Berlin. Dominic Sachsenmaier is Assistant Professor of Trans-Cultural and Chinese History, Duke University.

Bringing together scholars from around the world, this first book in the Palgrave Macmillan Series in Transnational History raises the question of how we can get away from the contemporary language of globalization, to identify meaningful, global ways of defining historical events and processes in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors trace the historical trajectories of notions of world order, while proposing cutting-edge transnational and global approaches. The essayists grapple with broad and critical questions, including the role of global discourses, the politics of new global movements, the impact of global intellectual developments, and the emergence of competing visions of world order.

Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s--Dominic Sachsenmaier and Sebastian Conrad
• Part I: Conceptions of World Order and Global Consciousness in the Imperialist Age * Global Civil Society and the Forces of Empire: The Salvation Army, British Imperialism and the "Pre-history" of NGOs (ca. 1880 - 1920)--Harald Fischer-Tiné
• The Common Grounds of Conflict: Racial Visions of World Order 1880-1940--Christian Geulen
• World Orders in World Histories Before and After World War I--Matthias Middell * Part II: World War I as a Global Moment: Implications for Conceptions of World Order * Dawn of a New Era: The "Wilsonian Moment" in Colonial Contexts and the Transformation of World Order, 1917-1920--Erez Manela
• Alternative Visions of World Order in the Aftermath of World War I--Global Perspectives on Chinese Approaches--Dominic Sachsenmaier
• Part III: Movements Towards Alternative World Order * Global Mobility and Nationalism: Chinese Migration and the Re-Territorialization of Belonging, 1880-1910--Sebastian Conrad and Klaus Mühlhahn
• A Global Anti-Western Moment? The Russo-Japanese War, Decolonization and Asian Modernity--Cemil Aydin
• Bringing the "Black Atlantic" into Global History: The Project of Pan-Africanism--Andreas Eckert