Introduction
by Emily S. Rosenberg 3
1. Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood
by Charles S. Maier
Introduction 29
1. The World Is "Weary of the Past 40
2. Reconstruction on a World Scale 93
3. The Human Zoo 153
4. States of Exception 196
2. Empires and the Reach of the Global Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton
Introduction 285
1. Reterritorializing Empires 306
2. Remaking the World 348
3. Global Empires, Transnational Connections 390
3. Migrations and Belongings
by Dirk Hoerder
Introduction 435
1. A Longue-Durée Perspective 444
2. The Global and the Local 468
3. Migrations, Free and Bound 491
4. Migrations during War and Depression 548
5. The Aftermath of War and Decolonization 579
4. Commodity Chains in a Global Economy
by Allen Wells
Introduction 593
1. Transformations 600
2. The Sinews of Trade 628
3. Commodity Chains 685
5. Transnational Currents in a Shrinking World
by Emily S. Rosenberg
Introduction 815
1. Currents of Internationalism 823
2. Social Networking and Entangled Attachments 849
3. Exhibitionary Nodes 886
4. Circuits of Expertise 919
5. Spectacular Flows 960
Notes 999
Selected Bibliography 1097
Contributors 1137
Index 1139