Bringing together scholars from around the world, this first book in the Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series raises the question of how we can get away from the contemporary language of globalization, so as to identify meaningful, global ways of defining historical events and processes in the late Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.

Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s; D.Sachsenmaier & S.Conrad PART I: CONCEPTIONS OF WORLD ORDER AND GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE IMPERIALIST AGE Global Civil Society and the Forces of Empire: The Salvation Army, British Imperialism and the "Pre-history" of NGOs (ca. 1880 - 1920); H.Fischer-Tiné The Common Grounds of Conflict: Racial Visions of World Order 1880-1940; C.Geulen World Orders in World Histories Before and After World War I; M.Middell PART II: WORLD WAR I AS A GLOBAL MOVEMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR CONCEPTIONS OF A WORLD ORDER Dawn of a New Era: The "Wilsonian Moment" in Colonial Contexts and the Transformation of World Order, 1917-1920; E.Manela Alternative Visions of World Order in the Aftermath of World War I - Global Perspectives on Chinese Approaches; D.Sachsenmaier PART III: MOVEMENTS TOWARDS ALTERNATIVE WORLD ORDER Global Mobility and Nationalism: Chinese Migration and the Re-Territorialization of Belonging, 1880-1910 - S.Conrad & K.Mühlhahn A Global Anti-Western Moment? The Russo-Japanese War, Decolonization and Asian Modernity; C.Aydin Bringing the "Black Atlantic" into Global History: The Project of Pan-Africanism; A.Eckert

SEBASTIAN CONRAD is Assistant Professor of Modern History, Free University, Berlin, Germany.
DOMINIC SACHSENMAIER is Professor of Global & International Studies, UC-Santa Barbara, USA.