‘In this concise volume, top leaders in the practice of world history lay out the lively debates on theory and method that are transforming the profession. The product is a volume that will be essential reading for anybody teaching in this field, and graduate students in many fields.’ 

- Pamela Kyle Crossley, Collis Professor of History, Dartmouth College, USA 

‘Anyone interested in the worldwide historic experience of humanity will find the concepts and approaches presented in this volume to be extremely insightful and helpful.’ 

- John O. Voll, Professor Emeritus of Islamic History, Georgetown University, USA

‘Carefully edited and intellectually daring, this work is of huge importance to any scholar or student of world history.’

-  Dominic Sachsenmaier, Chair and Professor of Modern China and Global Historical Perspectives, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany

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This book makes a unique and timely contribution to world/global historical studies and related fields. It places essential world historical frameworks by top scholars in the field today in clear, direct relation to and conversation with one other, offering them opportunity to enrich, elucidate and, at times, challenge one another. It thereby aims to: (1) offer world historians opportunity to critically reflect upon and refine their essential interpretational frameworks, (2) facilitate more effective and nuanced teaching and learning in and beyond the classroom, (3) provide accessible world historical contexts for specialized areas of historical as well as other fields of research in the humanities, social sciences and sciences, and (4) promote comparative historiographical critique which (a) helps identify continuing research questions for the field of world history in particular, as well as (b) further global peace and dialogue in relation to varying views of our ever-increasingly interconnected, interdependent, multicultural, and globalized world and its shared though diverse and sometimes contested history.