History and Theory, Vol. 57, No. 3 (SEPTEMBER 2018), pp. 390-407 (18 pages) Ever since the spatial turn, historians have faced major challenges regarding how to write and research global history in ...

In the spring of 1979, in my second semester of college teaching (as a visiting assistant professor of history at Oberlin), an absolutely brilliant undergraduate wrote a scathing critique of ...

In recent years, China has spent a small fortune trying to influence the world through “soft power” — relying on language, cuisine and culture, rather than the conventional hard tools of aircraft ...

One day several years ago, a man in New Haven, Conn., swabbed the inside of his cheek and sent off the sample in a vial marked only with a number to a National Geographic lab. A few weeks later, he ...

PART I -- GLOBALISATION OF ANTI-APARTHEID -- Humanitarians, Human Rights and Anti-Apartheid; Rob Skinner -- 'We the people of the United Nations': The UN and the Global campaigns against Apartheid; ...