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- Abu-Lughod, Janet. Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
- Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: Norton, 1997, 1999. Extremely useful for global prehistory up to 10,000 B.C. A scientistic rationalization of world history based on Darwinian teleology thereafter.
- Frank, Andre Gunder. Re-Orient: The Silver Age in Asia and the World Economy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
- Jones, Eric. The European Miracle: Environments, Economies, and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia. Cambridge University Press, 1981. Second edition, 1988.
- Landes, David. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor. New York, 1998.
- McNeill, William H. Plagues and Peoples. New York: Anchor Books, 1977.
- ---. The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
- Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
- Wong, R. Bin. China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.
