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Using a collection of essays from an international range of contributors, this essential student reader puts globalization in its historical context and examines the history of the world in key themes that transcend national boundaries.

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In this wide-ranging book, one of the most esteemed cultural historians of our time turns his attention to major questions about human experience and various attempts to understand it "scientifically

Starting with Cromwell and the religious ascetics of the Puritan Revolution, Mazlish shows, in fascinating personality sketches, how this asceticism first became secularized with the French Revolution and then in the 19th and 20th centuries was put to the service of a new kind of "total" modernizing revolution in Russia, China, and elsewhere

From a distinguished author in the field, The New Global History is a critical inquiry into the historical process of globalization, which is seen as a distinctly twentieth century phenomenon with its roots in the age of expansion of the early modern world. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, The New Global History offers a fresh, overarching view of the process of globalization that is always empirically based and discusses the most impor...

Global history is a fast growing area of historical study. With the acceleration of the age of globalization in the twentieth century, we have been able to view the world across national boundaries. From the speed of electronic communications and the coverage of global news to the proliferation of 'ethnic' restaurants, globalization is situated directly in our everyday lives, and affects our perceptions of world events. It also has a major imp...

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Civilization is a constantly invoked term. It is used by both politicians and scholars. How useful, in fact, is this term? "Civilization and Its Contents" traces the origins of the concept in the eighteenth century.

Civilization is a constantly invoked term. It is used by both politicians and scholars. How useful, in fact, is this term? "Civilization and Its Contents" traces the origins of the concept in the eighteenth century.

A uniquely diverse collection of essays on the global reach of American power, institutions and culture from the 19th century to the present day.

A uniquely diverse collection of essays on the global reach of American power, institutions and culture from the 19th century to the present day.

Originally published: New York: Basic Books, 1976.

In Globalization and Transformation, Bruce Mazlish examines developments in contemporary warfare, economy, technology, and religion as fundamental factors in human experience that have accelerated global change in recent years. Continuing the analysis he began in Reflections on the Modern and the Global, Mazlish delves into human history, examining who we were so as to help us understand who we are today. Early in the volume, Mazlish highlight...

Who was the real Richard Nixon and why did he behave the way he did? In this innovative work, a distinguished historian, trained in psychoanalysis, unravels the riddle of Nixon's singularly opaque political personality. Bruce Mazlish offers insight into the subtle interplay between Nixon the man and Nixon the public figure.

From a distinguished author in the field, The New Global History is a critical inquiry into the historical process of globalization, which is seen as a distinctly twentieth century phenomenon with its roots in the age of expansion of the early modern world. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, The New Global History offers a fresh, overarching view of the process of globalization that is always empirically based and discusses the most impor...