Bringing together scholars from around the world, this first book in the
Palgrave Macmillan Series in Transnational History raises the question
of how we can get away from the contemporary language of globalization,
to identify meaningful, global ways of defining historical events and
processes in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors
trace the historical trajectories of notions of world order, while
proposing cutting-edge transnational and global approaches. The
essayists grapple with broad and critical questions, including the role
of global discourses, the politics of new global movements, the impact
of global intellectual developments, and the emergence of competing
visions of world order.