Contemporary globalization requires today’s historians to develop new perspectives and approaches for the construction of national and regional histories and to increase their awareness and understanding of the wider world. World history encompasses these changes in a particularly meaningful way, and this series is an effort to extend the field in new directions. Perspectives on the Global Past welcomes a variety of analytical approaches and the methods and insights of different disciplines. Books may focus on specific cultural groups and regions or range comparatively worldwide in analysis of large-scale processes, cross-cultural encounters, and global themes.

Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women’s Pan-Pacific, by Fiona Paisley (July 2009)

Creating the “New Man”: From Enlightenment Ideals to Socialist Realities, by Yinghong Cheng (January 2009)

Anthropology’s Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935, by Rainer F. Buschmann (October 2008)

Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges, ed. by Jerry H. Bentley; Renate Bridenthal; Kären Wigen (2007)

Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World, ed. by Victor H. Mair (2005)

Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History, ed. by Jerry H. Bentley, Renate Bridenthal, and Anand A. Yang (2005)

Series Editors

Jerry H. Bentley, professor of history, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Author of Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (1993) and coauthor of Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past (1999). He is the editor of the Journal of World History.

Anand Yang, professor of history, University of Utah. Author of Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Gangetic Bihar (1998) and The Limited Raj: Agrarian Relations in Colonial India, Saran District, 1793-1920 (1989). He was the editor of the Journal of Asian Studies from 1995 through 2000.

We are now inviting submissions from interested authors. Your proposal may take the form of

• a preliminary letter briefly describing the project; or
• a formal prospectus: a descriptive cover letter (include information about length and illustrations), table of contents, introduction (if available), sample chapter, and c.v.

Please send two copies of your prospectus or inquiry, one to each series editor:

Jerry H. Bentley
History Department
Sakamaki A203
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI 96822
jbentley@hawaii.edu

Anand Yang
Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington
Box 353650
Seattle, WA 98195-3650
aay@u.washington.edu