Zusammenfassung Bringing together historical sociologists from Sociology and International Relations, this collection lays out the international, transnational, and global dimensions of social change. It reveals the shortcomings of existing scholarship and argues for a deepening of historical sociology through a concerted treatment of transnational and global dynamics through time.

Autorentext
Julian Go is a Professor of Sociology at Boston University. He is author of American Empire and the Politics of Meaning (2008) and Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present (Cambridge, 2012). George Lawson is Associate Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His books include The Global Transformation with Barry Buzan (Cambridge, 2015), The Global 1989: Continuity and Change in World Politics, edited with Chris Armbruster and Michael Cox (Cambridge, 2010), and Negotiated Revolutions: The Czech Republic, South Africa and Chile (2005).

Inhalt
Introduction. For a global historical sociology Julian Go and George Lawson; Part I. States, War, and Revolution: 1. Real mythic histories: circulatory networks and state centrism Matt Norton; 2. Soldiers, armies, and wars in global context Tarak Barkawi; 3. A global historical sociology of revolution George Lawson; Part II. Empire, Race, and Sexuality: 4. Following 'the deeds of men': slavery, 'the global' and international relations Zine Magubane; 5. The crisis of Europe and colonial amnesia: freedom struggles in the Atlantic biotope Robbie Shilliam; 6. Sex, gender and sexuality in colonial modernity: towards a sociology of webbed connectivities Vrushali Patil; Part III. Capitalism and Political Economy: 7. The global, the historical, and the social in the making of capitalism Ho-fung Hung; 8. The influence of trade with Asia on British economic theory and practice Emily Erikson; 9. Asian incorporation and the collusive dynamics of western 'expansion' in the early modern world Andrew Phillips; 10. Worlding the rise of capitalism: the multi-civilizational roots of modernity John Hobson; Conclusion. Global historical sociology and transnational history: history and theory against eurocentrism Andrew Zimmerman.