Journal of World History: Favorite Early Articles

The following articles in early issues of the Journal of World History are among those most requested by readers. Since their offprints may be hard to find, a PDF version of each article has now been made freely available on the UH Press website.

Vol. 6, no. 2 (1995)

Born with a “Silver Spoon”: The Origin of World Trade in 1571, pp. 201-221
Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giráldez

Vol. 6, no. 1 (1995)

The Lateen Sail in World History, pp. 1-23
I. C. Campbell
Guns and Government: A Comparative Study of Europe and Japan, pp. 75-106
Stephen Morillo

Vol. 5, no. 2 (1994)

Inner Eurasia as a Unit of World History, p. 173
David Christian
Islam as a Special World-System, p. 213
John Obert Voll
Meeting Yesterday Head-on: The Vietnam War in Vietnamese, American, and World History, p. 227
Craig A. Lockard
The Other One-Third of the Globe, p. 273
Ben Finney
Of Rats and Men: A Synoptic Environmental History of the Island Pacific, p. 299
J. R. McNeill

Vol. 5, no. 1 (1994)

Southernization, p. 1
Lynda Shaffer

Vol. 4, no. 2 (1993)

“I Am the Subject of the King of Congo”: African Political Ideology and the Haitian Revolution, p. 181
John K. Thornton
Treaties and Friendships: British Imperialism, the Ottoman Empire, and China in the Nineteenth Century, p. 215
Resat Kasaba

Vol. 4, no. 1 (1993)

Religious and Cultural Conversion to Islam in Ninth-Century Umayyad Córdoba, p. 47
Jessica A. Coope

Vol. 3, no. 2 (1992)

“If We Get the Girls, We Get the Race”: Missionary Education of Native American Girls, p. 219
Carol Devens
After the Conquest: The Survival of Indigenous Patterns of Life and Belief, p. 239
Frances Karttunen

Vol. 3, no. 1 (1992)

The Civilizing Process and the Domestication of Fire, p. 1
Johan Goudsblom
The “American Century” in World History, p. 105
Donald W. White

Vol. 2, no. 2 (1991)

The Case for “Big History”, p. 223
David Christian

Vol. 2, no. 1 (1991)

A Plea for World System History, p. 1
Andre Gunder Frank

Vol. 1, no. 2 (1990)

World History in the People’s Republic of China, p. 151
Ralph Croizier

Vol. 1, no. 1 (1990)

The Rise of the West after Twenty-Five Years, p. 1
William H. McNeill
Toward World History: American Historians and the Coming of the World History Course, p. 23
Gilbert Allardyce
The Past and Present of Women in the Muslim World, p. 77
Nikki R. Keddie