<div><div>This fresh collection of case studies is essential reading for anyone studying globalization, world history, transnational history or world politics. A.G. Hopkins' invaluable introduction places the new global history in the context of world, international and transnational history, and an afterword by pioneering historian William McNeill concludes the volume. Each of the chapters looks at an aspect of the key relationship between the universal and the local in global history.</div></div>