by Kevin Reilly
Suggested Readings
Bacci, Massimo Livi. A Concise History of World Population: An Introduction to Population Processes. London: Blackwell, 2001. One of the world’s leading scholars on population history places the modern population explosion in a larger context.
Frieden, Jeffrey. Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century. New York: Norton, 2006. A thoughtful and balanced history of economic globalization.
Gourevitch, Philip. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda. New York: Picador USA, 1999. An effort to understand one of the most horrific ethnic conflicts of the twentieth century.
Guha, Ramachandra. Environmentalism: A Global History. New York: Longman, 2000. A world-historical account of the development of environmental movements in Western, communist, and Third World regions.
Hopkins, A. G. Globalization in World History. New York: Norton, 2002. An effort to cast the recent processes of globalization in a larger historical context, emphasizing the role of non-Western peoples.
Markoff, John. Waves of Democracy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1996. Traces the ups, downs, and transformations of democracy on a global basis in the twentieth century.
McNeill, J. R. Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth Century World. New York: Norton, 2000. A prizewinning account of the human refashioning of the planet in the twentieth century.
Riley, James C. Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Explores a worldwide “health transition” that has resulted in longer lives all across the planet.
Smith, Bonnie, ed. Global Feminisms: A Survey of Issues and Controversies. London: Routledge, 2000. A series of essays by leading scholars that compares feminist movements and feminist thinking across the world.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: Norton, 2003. An insider’s account of the workings of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization.
Notes
1. Bulletin of the Committee of Moroccan Workers in Holland, 1978, quoted in Hazel Johnson and Henry Bernstein, eds., Third World Lives of Struggle (London: Heinemann, 1982), 173-74.
2. Choi Chatterjee et al., The Twentieth Century: A Retrospective (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002), 353.
3. International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook (May 2000), chap. 5, fig. 5.1, http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2000/01/pdf/chapter5.pdf., based on Bradford J. DeLong, “Estimating World GDP, One Million B.C.-Present,” http://econ161.berkeley.edu.
4. J. R. McNeill, Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth Century World (New York: Norton, 2000), 15, 360-61.
5. Martin Wolf, “In the Grip of a Great Convergence,” Financial Times, January 5, 2011, 9.
6. Robert Gilpin, The Challenge of Global Capitalism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000), 20-23.
7. Susan Strange, The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 47.
8. Stephen D. Krasner, “Transforming International Regimes: What the Third World Wants and Why” International Studies Quarterly 25 (March 1981): 126; Nancy Birdsall, “Life Is Unfair: Inequality in the World,” Foreign Policy, Summer 1998, 76-93; International Monetary Fund, Globalization: Threat or Opportunity (2001), http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2000/041200.htm#III.
9. “A Decade to Eradicate Poverty: United Nations Development Programme,” Social Education 61, no. 6 (October 1997): 316.
10. See, for example, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents (New York: Norton, 2002), and Jeff Faux, “The Global Alternative,” The American Prospect 12, no. 12 (July 2-16, 2001): 15-18.
11. This section draws heavily on the concepts and data in McNeill, Something New under the Sun. The quotes are from pages 3 and 4.
12. World Resources 2000-2001: People and Ecosystems: The Fraying Web of Life (Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, 2000), 246, 248.
13. Much of this section is drawn from Ramachandra Guha, Environmentalism: A Global History (New York: Longman, 2000).
14. Walden Bello, “Structural Adjustment Programs: ‘Success’ for Whom,” in Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith, The Case against the Global Economy (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1996), 286.
15. The general framework for this section derives from Samuel P. Huntington, The Third Wave (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991). The quote is from page 17.
16. David Reynolds, One World Divisible: A Global History since 1945 (New York: Norton, 2000), 654-55.
17. David Crystal, “Vanishing Languages,” Civilization, February/March 1997, 40-45.
18. David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2003).
19. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York: Dell, 1963), 11-12.
20. Yasmine Ergas, “Feminisms of the 1970s,” in A History of Women, ed. Francoise Thebaud (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994), 527-28.
21. Elisabeth Jay Friedman, “Gendering the Agenda,” Women’s Studies International Forum 26, no. 4 (2003): 313-31.
About the Author
KEVIN REILLY is professor of humanities at Raritan Valley Community College and has taught at Rutgers, Columbia, and Princeton Universities. Cofounder and first president of the World History Association, Reilly wrote The West and the World and has edited a number of works in world history, including Worlds of History, Readings in World Civilization, and the World History syllabus collection. As a specialist in immigration history, Reilly created the “Modern Global Migrations” globe at Ellis Island’s Museum of the History of Immigration. His work on the history of racism led to the editing of Racism: A Global Reader. He was a Fulbright scholar in Brazil (1989) and Jordan (1994) and was awarded NEH fellowships in Greece (1990), Oxford (2006), and India (2008). In 1992, the Community College Humanities Association named him “Distinguished Educator of the Year.” He has served on various committees and the governing Council of the American Historical Association. In 2010, he was honored by the World History Association with a World History Pioneer award.
