An introduction to global history / Bruce Mazlish --
The theory of global history. The rounding of the earth : ecology and global history / Neva R. Goodwin --
Global history : historiographical feasibility and environmental reality / Wolf Schäfer --
Global history and the third world / Ralph Buultjens --
From universal history to global history / Manfred Kossok --
Global history in a postmodernist era? / Bruce Mazlish --
Applied global history. Migration and its enemies / Wang Gungwu --
A globalizing economy : some implications and consequences / Richard J. Barnet and John Cavanagh --
Human rights as global imperative / Louis Menand III --
The globalization of music : expanding spheres of influence / John Joyce --
An overview. On the prospect of global history / Raymond Grew.

The contributors to this book offer both theoretical treatments and a number of examples of what global history is and how it might be expressed. It establishes a new way of thinking about history in the coming millennium.