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.

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