What in the World?: Understanding Global Social Change

1 Introduction: World Society And Its Histories – The Sociology And Global History Of Global Social Change -- 2 Every Epoch, Time Frame Or Date That Is Solid Melts Into Air. Does It? The Entanglements Of Global History And World Society -- 3 Periodization In Global History: The Productive Power Of Comparing -- 4 Communication, Differentiation And The Evolution Of World Society -- 5 Field Theory And Global Transformations In The Long Twentieth Century -- 6 Organization(s) Of The World -- 7 Particularly Universal Encounters: Ethnographic Explorations Into A Laboratory Of World Society -- 8 From The First Sino-roman War (that Never Happened) To Modern International-cum-imperial Relations -- 9 Nationalism As A Global Institution: A Historical-sociological View -- 10 States And Markets: A Global Historical Sociology Of Capitalist Governance -- 11 The Impact Of Communications In Global History -- 12 The ‘long Twentieth Century’ And The Making Of World Trade Law -- 13 Third-party Actors, Transparency And Global Military Affairs -- 14 Technical Internationalism And Global Social Change: A Critical Look At The Historiography Of The United Nations Edited By Mathias Albert And Tobias Werron. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.