Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. Introduction: World Society and Its Histories – The Sociology and Global History of Global Social Change 1
7. Every Epoch, Time Frame or Date that Is Solid Melts into Air. Does It? The Entanglements of Global History and World Society 25
8. Periodization in Global History: The Productive Power of Comparing 43
9. Communication, Differentiation and the Evolution of World Society 63
10. Field Theory and Global Transformations in the Long Twentieth Century 81
11. Organization(s) of the World 99
12. Particularly Universal Encounters: Ethnographic Explorations into a Laboratory of World Society 117
13. From the First Sino-Roman War (That Never Happened) to Modern International-cum-Imperial Relations: Observing International Politics from an Evolution Theory Perspective 139
14. Nationalism as a Global Institution: A Historical-Sociological View 157
15. States and Markets: A Global Historical Sociology of Capitalist Governance 177
16. The Impact of Communications in Global History 195
17. The ‘Long Twentieth Century’ and the Making of World Trade Law 211
18. Third-Party Actors, Transparency and Global Military Affairs 227
19. Technical Internationalism and Global Social Change: A Critical Look at the Historiography of the United Nations 243
20. References 265
21. Index 299