• World History

  Many of our titles are suitable for course use. We are pleased to highlight our most enduring and popular textbooks in this discipline. We hope you will explore each of the featured disciplines as many of our books are suitable for courses across departments.

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  A Century of Revolution • Gilbert M. Joseph, Greg Grandin, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg

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  A Primer for Teaching World History • Antoinette Burton

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  Archive Stories • Antoinette Burton

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  Bodies in Contact • Antoinette Burton, Tony Ballantyne

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  From Silver to Cocaine • Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, Zephyr Frank, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg

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  Linked Labor Histories • Aviva Chomsky, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg

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  Making a New World • John Tutino

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  The Ghana Reader • Kwasi Konadu, Clifford C. Campbell, Robin Kirk, Orin Starn

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  The Modern Girl Around the World • Alys Eve Weinbaum, The Modern Girl around the World Research Group, Lynn M. Thomas, Priti Ramamurthy, Uta G. Poiger, Madeleine Yue Dong, Inderpal Grewal, Robyn Wiegman

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  The South Africa Reader • Clifton Crais, Thomas V. McClendon, Robin Kirk, Orin Starn

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  Vertical Empire • Jeremy Ravi Mumford

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  World-Systems Analysis • Immanuel Wallerstein

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Complimentary desk copies of required textbooks are available to faculty members whose course enrollment is ten or more students. Complimentary desk copies of recommended or optional textbooks and multiple desk copies are sent at the discretion of the publisher.

• Reading Lists Associated With This Discipline

  Members of the Duke University Press site may create a reading list containing the titles of books, journals or journal special issues of their chosing. Below are reading lists created that relate to the discipline, World History. Click a reading list name to view titles on that list.