Posted: December 21st, 2014

When, why, and how did the contemporary world come into being? ”

When, why, and how did the contemporary world come into being? ”

Order Description

The answer shouldnt be more than 3000 words.
The last essay was good but there were problems in the essay bridging gap between some reasonably detailed observations — about the industrial revolution, for example

— and the conclusions that one might draw from these. As is, for the latter you rely more on quite general assertions than a well articulated analysis, so theres work

to do in building from the information youre getting out of the readings to a fully formed argument .

The making of Contemporary World

Answer the following question in no more than 3,000 words. “When, why, and how did the contemporary world come into being? ” Your answer should demonstrate a command

of at least the required reading from the second half of term and engage with that from throughout the term. The essay is due on 5 January and is worth 60% of your

overall mark.

Readings

Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton, “Empires and the Reach of the Global,” in Rosenberg, A World Connecting, ch. 2

Dirk Hoerder, “Migrations and Belongings,” Steven C. Topik and Allen Wells, “Commodity Chains in a Global Economy,” and Emily S. Rosenberg, “Transnational Currents in

a Shrinking World,” in Rosenberg, A World Connecting. Everyone to read pp. 435-43, 468-90, 593-625,685-88, and 815-22, and one of chh. 3, 4 or 5.

Robin W. Winks, “On Decolonization and Informal Empire,” The American Historical Review 81.3(1976), 540-556 [e-journal]

Mark T. Berger, ‘After the Third World? History, Destiny and the Fate of Third Worldism’, Third World Quarterly, 25.1 (2004), 9-39 [e-journal]

Arturo Escobar, Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World(1995), 21-54 [BLE]

Stephen D. Krasner, ‘International Political Economy: Abiding Discord’, Review of International Political Economy 1.1 (1994), 13-19 [e-journal]

Susan Strange, ‘Wake up Krasner! The World has Changed’, Review of International Political Economy 1.2 (1994), 209-219 [e-journal]

Michael Mann, ‘Has Globalization Ended the Rise and Rise of the Nation-State’, Review of International Political Economy 4.3 (1997), 472-496 [e-journal]

Marshall Hodgson, ‘The Interrelations of Societies in History,’ Comparative Studies in Societyand History 5.2 (1963), 227-50 [e-journal]

Michael Geyer and Charles Bright, “World History in a Global Age,” American Historical Review100.4 (1995), 1034-60 [e-journal]

Jack Goldstone, “The Problem of the Early Modern World,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 41.3 (1998), 249-284 [e-journal]

Frederick Cooper, “States, Empires, and Political Imagination,” in idem., Colonialism in Question:Theory, Knowledge History (2005), 153-203 [BLE]
Jack Goldstone, “Efflorescences and Economic Growth in World History: Rethinking the ‘Rise of the West’ and the Industrial Revolution,” Journal of World History, 13.2

(Fall 2002): 323-389 [e-journal]

Charles S. Maier, “Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood,” in Rosenberg, A World Connecting, ch. 1

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