World Histories from Below

Antoinette Burton is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, USA. Her recent publications include An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire: Or a Primer of Conquest, Dissent and Disruption (Bloomsbury, 2017) and How Empire Shaped Us (Bloomsbury, 2016).Tony Ballantyne is Professor of History at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His recent publications include Entanglements of empire: Missionaries, Maori, and the question of the body (2014) and co-edited with Antoinette Burton Empires and the reach of the global: 1870-1945 (2009).

Praise for the first edition:'Most of the chapters in this fine collection would work very well in the undergraduate classroom … Each chapter chooses a small group of examples or moments to focus on, with brief mention of others, so students won't get buried in a mass of names and dates. The book as a whole could be assigned in thematic upper-level or graduate courses, both for its content and for the examples that the chapters provide about how to write comparative and world/global history on a specific topic in a research-paper length format. Because many of its examples are not ones often discussed, more advanced scholars of world history would gain by reading the book as well.'

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Keywords: "World History," "Below," and "Dissent and Disruption", Antoinette Burton and Tony Ballantyne 1. Modern Political Revolutions: Connecting Grassroots Political Dissent and Global Historical Transformations, M.J. Maynes and Ann Waltner 2. International and Global Anti-Colonial Movements, Heather Streets-Salter 3. Insurgent Citizenship: Armed Rebellions and Everyday Acts of Resistance in the Global South, Eileen M. Ford 4. Indigeneity, Movement, and Disrupting the Global Nineteenth Century, T. J. Tallie5. Body Politics, Sexualities, and the "Modern Family" in Global History, Durba Ghosh 6. The Persistence of the Gods: Religion in the Modern World, Tony Ballantyne7. Global Mobilities, Clare Anderson 8. The Anthropocene from Below, Nancy J. Jacobs, Danielle Johnstone and Christopher Kelly9. The Anthropocene’s “Belows”: Nature and Power in Global History, Robert Rouphail