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Islands have played a much larger role in global history than their small size may suggest. The study of islands, once a part of maritime history, has since 2006 grown into its own interdisciplinary field of "island studies." The three books analysed in this review all stand to contribute to the new field. The books under review are The Boundless Sea (2019), A World at Sea (2020), and África y sus islas (2021). Island-specific topics advanced by these books include islands as nodes in trade networks, the detrimental influence of colonisation on island environments, the use of islands as locations to escape from slavery, ethnographic descriptions of islands, and indigenous knowledge produced by islanders.

This important overview explores the connections between Singapore's past with historical developments worldwide until present day. The contributors analyse Singapore as a city-state seeking to provide an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of the global dimensions contributing to Singapore's growth. The book's global perspective demonstrates that many of the discussions of Singapore as a city-state have relevance and implications beyond Singapore to include Southeast Asia and the world. This vital volume should not be missed by economists, as well as those interested in imperial history, business history and networks.

This important overview explores the connections between Singapore's past with historical developments worldwide until present day. The contributors analyse Singapore as a city-state seeking to provide an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of the global dimensions contributing to Singapore's growth. The book's global perspective demonstrates that many of the discussions of Singapore as a city-state have relevance and implications beyond Singapore to include Southeast Asia and the world. This vital volume should not be missed by economists, as well as those interested in imperial history, business history and networks.

Globalising the history of Singapore Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied & Derek Heng -- Situating Temaski within the larger regional context : maritime Asia and Malay state formation in the pre-modern era Derek Heng -- The Singapore River : port in a global context Stephen Dobbs -- 'Walls of illusion' : information generation in colonial Singapore and the reporting of the Mahdi-Rebellion in Sudan, 1887-1890 Torsten Tschacher -- The littoral and the literary : making moral communities in the Straits Settlements and the Gold Coast in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Philip Holden -- Social discourse and economic functions : the Singapore Chinese in Japan's southward expansion between 1914 and 1941 Huei-Ying Kuo -- The dynamics of trans-regional business and national politics : the impact of events in China on Fujian-Singapore tea trading networks, 1920-1960 Jason Lim -- Rambutans in the picture : Han Wai Toon and the articulation of space by the overseas Chinese in Singapore Lai Chee Kien -- The global effects of an ethnic riot : Singapore, 1950-1954 Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied -- The British military withdrawal from Singapore and the anatomy of a catalyst Loh Kah Seng -- Bringing the international and transnational back in : Singapore, decolonisation, and the Cold War S.R. Joey Long -- The global and the regional in Lee Kuan Yew's strategic thought : the early Cold War years Ang Cheng Guan -- Brief history of the hub : navigating between 'global' and 'Asian' in Singapore's knowledge economy discourse Leong Yew

This study aims to provide new insights into the connections between maritime history and global history. It demonstrates the significance of maritime activity as a conduit of global exchange by examining local, national, and international interdependencies and trade networks, and a broad range of time periods, geographical areas, and various sub-divisions of maritime historical research. It is composed of ten essays, with an introductory chapter and concluding chapter. The first five essays discuss the effects globalisation on shipping in the early modern period; the following three discuss maritime transportation and the economics of industrialisation from the nineteenth century to the present day; the next discusses the impact of global entrepreneurialism on maritime history; the penultimate discusses the connections and variables between maritime and global history; and the concluding chapter examines the theoretical assumptions surrounding the two disciplines, using the globalisation of Early Modern Spain as a case study to do so. The study demonstrates that the core strength of maritime history is its essential place in global history, and that the process of globalisation began at sea

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 1 Migration History: Some Patterns Revisited -- 2 Moving Europeans in the Globalizing World: Contemporary Migrations in a Historical-Comparative Perspective (1955–1994 v. 1870–1914) -- 3 Africa and Global Patterns of Migration -- 4 The Global Migration Crisis -- 5 Diasporas, the Nation-State, and Globalisation -- 6 Migrant Workers, Markets, and the Law -- 7 Of Migration, Great Cities, and Markets: Global Systems of Development -- 8 Uncertain Globalization: Refugee Movements in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century -- 9 Travel, Migration, and Images of Social Life -- 10 Global Movements, Global Walls: Responses to Migration, 1885–1925 -- About the Book and Editor

I. Conceptual Considerations. Introduction: The prospect of global history / James Belich, John Darwin, and Chris Wickham -- Global history and historical sociology / Jürgen Osterhammel -- The economist and global history / Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke -- II. Global Circulations. Unnecessary dependences: illustrating circulation in pre-modern large-scale history / Nicholas Purcell -- A global Middle Ages? / Robert I. Moore -- The Black Death and the spread of Europe / James Belich -- The Qing Empire in the fabric of global history / Matthew W. Mosca -- III. Global Networks. Global history from an Islamic angle / Francis Robinson -- The real American empire / Antony G. Hopkins -- Writing constitutions and writing world history / Linda Colley -- Afterword: History on a global scale / John Darwin

The article discusses the relationship between global history and Brazilian history and suggests an agenda for future research. It argues that global history scholars could profit from Brazil's great scholarly tradition, which conceptualises key topics of global history such as global encounters and cultural identities, power asymmetries and spatial orders. Scholars interested in Brazilian history, on the other hand, will find a set of approaches and questions from a global history perspective helpful for research on central fields of Brazil historiography such as the coffee economy, scientific racism, the Cold War and the Amazon.

Barry Buzan's Making Global Society: A Study of Humanking Across Three Eras is a big and an ambitious book. In this volume he tells us the story of 50,000 years of humankind by constructing a "world history" (p. xi) with the social structure of humankind as its object of study. In doing so, Buzan has undertaken two main tasks.
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Introduction -- A short history of thinking globally -- Competing approaches -- Global history as a distinct approach -- Global history and forms of integration -- Space in global history -- Time in global history -- Positionality and centred approaches -- World-making and the concepts of global history -- Global history for whom? : the policies of global history