Contents
Preface
Facing World History: inspirations, institutions, networks; Carolien Stolte and Alicia Schrikker
Interviews
Interview with Brij V. Lal, Historian of Indenture and of Contemporary Fiji
‘I end up with the question “why”, but I don’t start with it’: Interview with Geoff rey Parker
The Importance of Knowledge-Systems: Interview with John Rankine Goody
The Best of Two Worlds: Interview with Om Prakash
The Study of Contrasts across Europe: Interview with Patrick O’Brien
History is Placing a Man in the Context of his Times: Interview with the Late Ashin Das Gupta (1932–1998)
‘I didn’t get into history to avoid math or physics’: Interview with Patricia Seed, Professor of Rice University
A Sea of Histories, a History of the Seas: Interview with Adrian B. Lapian
Sympathetic ‘Farangi’: Interview with Michael N. Pearson
Why Is China So Big? And Other Big Questions: Interview with John E. Wills, Jr.
Slavery, Migration and the Atlantic World: Interview with Piet Emmer
‘I am not going to call myself a global historian’: Interview with C.A. Bayly
The Retreat of the Elephants: Interview with Mark Elvin
Wanting to know everything in a complex world: Interview with Allison Blakely
Transoceanic Trade: The Reconstruction of Al-Mukhâ through VOC Records: Interview with C.G. Brouwer
World History and Other Marginal and Perverse Pursuits: Interview with Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Studying Southeast Asia in and for Southeast Asia: Interview with Anthony Reid
The Red-Haired Barbarian from Leiden: Interview with Leonard Blussé
You turn a page and then there is suddenly something on a turtle’: Interview with Jürgen Osterhammel
Are We All Global Historians Now?: Interview with David Armitage
Lessons from African History: between the deep and the shallow ends of social theory and historical empiricism. Interview with Frederick Cooper
‘Being speculative is better than to not do it at all’: Interview with Natalie Zemon Davis
Map-Making in World History: Interview with Kären Wigen
‘My favourite source is the landscape’: Interview with Robert Ross History as Renegade Politics: Interview with Ann Laura Stoler
Bibliography of World Historians
Bibliography of World History