Nominated:
Stern, Steve, “Africa, Latin America, and the Splintering of Historical Knowledge:  From
Fragmentation to Reverberation,” in, Frederick Cooper, Allen F. Isaacman, Florencia E. Mallon, William Roseberry, and Steve J. Stern, Confronting Historical Paradigms:  Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America (Madison:  University of Wisconsin Press, 1993), 3-20.

Bender, Thomas, “Introduction:  Historians, the Nation, and the Plenitude of Narratives,” in
Thomas Bender, ed., Rethinking American History in a Global Age (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2002), 1-21.

Suri, Jeremi, “The Significance of the Wider World in American History,” Reviews in American
History 31 (2003):  1-13.  A review of Bender’s, Rethinking American History in a Global Age.

Mintz, Sidney, “Introduction,” in Sweetness and Power:  The Place of Sugar in Modern History
(New York:  Viking, 1985), xv-xxx.  

World History:
Wolf, Eric R., Europe and the People without History (Berkeley:  University of California Press,
1982).  Abstract: A non-doctrinaire Marxist historical interpretation of the world from 1400 to 1982; the first of its kind in US history.  Katherine Verdery, in Ethnohistory 31, no. 3 (1984):  225-227, writes that “unlike recent global treatments, this one is sensitive to the particulars of cultural forms and local conditions in the encounter with capitalism” (226).  This seems to have shown American historians ways of doing social history very close to the bottom.

Transnational:
Curtin, Philip J., “The African Diaspora,” Historical Reflections 6, no. 1 (1979):  1-17. Abstract:
Reviews recent historiography of the slave trade and calls for comparative research on its three major phases, the repopulation of tropical America, the provision of labor for mines and plantations in America and elsewhere, and the supply of specialized servant groups to the Islamic world, all of which share characteristics with other migrations. Relates the African experience to the basic questions examined by migration studies in general, identity and intentions of the migrants and impact of their moving on sending and receiving areas. Both impacts, at least as regards general synthesis, have been less researched than asserted in recent years. The slave trade has been likened economically to the fishing industry, but it may be more aptly compared, in terms of cost distribution, to burglary.

Curtin, Philip J. and Jan Vansina, “Sources of the Nineteenth Century Slave Trade,” Journal of
African History 5, no. 2 (1964):  185-208.  Abstract: By a critical examination of two surveys made in 1848-49 of the recaptured slave population resident in Sierra Leone, maps are produced to show the places of origin in the West, Central and East African slave trade. These are primarily intended as a contribution to the study of the impact of the slave trade on African societies. Appendixes include the linguistic inventory from S. W. Koelle's Polyglotta Africana (1854) and the Sierra Leone census of 1848. The "real heart" of the slave trade is shown as the coast from Popo, in the west, to Douala, in the east.

Duara, Prasenjit, “Transnationalism and the Challenge to National Histories,” in Thomas Bender,
ed., Rethinking American History in a Global Age (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2002), 25-46.  This essay challenges the given-ness of the nation in written histories, linking these previous histories bounded by the nation to the creation of national identities in the interest of nation-states to legitimize their authority.  The goal of the piece is to make historians more aware of the political projects in which it has been enmeshed in an effort to make historians aware of spatial representations that are usually taken for granted.  

Kelley, Robin D.G., “How the West Was Won:  The African Diaspora and the Re-Mapping of
U.S. History,” in Thomas Bender, ed., Rethinking American History in a Global Age (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2002), 123-147.  This essay argues that American history should be done within a diaspora framework in order to show the imbrications of various ethnicities within America to other events not normally considered relevant to American history.

Mintz, Sidney, “Sweet Polychrest,” Social Research 66, no. 1 (1999):  85-101.  Abstract:
Presents an account of the chemistry, production, commodification, usage, and economic impact of sucrose in the forms of cane and beet sugar, corn-based sweeteners, honey, and artificial sweeteners through the centuries in Europe, the Americas, and around the world.

________. “Introduction,” in Sweetness and Power:  The Place of Sugar in Modern History
(New York:  Viking, 1985), xv-xxx.

________. “Time, Sugar, & Sweetness,” Marxist Perspectives 2, no. 4 (1979-80):  56-73.
Abstract: Recounts the medicinal and culinary uses of sugar from about the 16th century,
and its role in economic history.

Paige, Jeffery M., Coffee and Power:  Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America
(Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1997).  This book examines Central America as a whole, but mainly Nicaragua and El Salvador, and the role of the coffee industry and its ruling families in the creation of liberal institutions and governments in Central America and in other places in Central America.  This is an oral history of the transformation of Central American political structures.

Rodgers, Daniel T., Atlantic Crossings:  Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Cambridge, Mass.:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998).  Abstract: This book traces transatlantic discourse between US and Europe from the Gilded Age up to the New Deal about welfare, social security, etc.  Michael Katz’s review in AHR 104, no. 4 (1999):  1331-1332 is sparkling.  Katz relates this to no other trans-national histories.

International History:
Bender, Thomas, “Introduction:  Historians, the Nation, and the Plenitude of Narratives,” in
Thomas Bender, ed., Rethinking American History in a Global Age (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2002), 1-21.  Argues that American history ought to problematize the notion of the nation-state to avoid artificial accounts of history that exclude vital portions of the population.  Advocates an approach to American history that relativizes the nation-state in favor of more global points of view given the fact that we now live in a self-consciously global age.

Bright, Charles, and Michael Geyer, “Where in the World is America?  The History of the United
States in the Global Age,” in Thomas Bender, ed., Rethinking American History in a Global Age (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2002), 63-99.  This essay seeks to question the notion of American exceptionalism in the context of an America history reflected in the history of other usually marginalized groups. Given the recent situation of the American Nation, this essay suggests that its recourse to supra-national political institutions has problematized the boundaries set by the nation for historical study and the boundaries of political authority.    

Stern, Steve, “Africa, Latin America, and the Splintering of Historical Knowledge:  From
Fragmentation to Reverberation,” in, Frederick Cooper, Allen F. Isaacman, Florencia E. Mallon, William Roseberry, and Steve J. Stern, Confronting Historical Paradigms:  Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America (Madison:  University of Wisconsin Press, 1993), 3-20.  This essay argues that concerns over the fragmentation of historical knowledge that emerged in the 1960 were misplaced since the questions and answers emerging from this splintering of historical knowledge have enriched and enlarged the types of historical knowledge available to the historian.  It seems to be a synthesis of subversive histories originating in the fields of Africa and Latin America that also shows the relevance of this type of history for other neglected classes n history; however, the essay seems to have been superceded by subaltern studies.

________. “Feudalism, Capitalism, and the World-System in the Perspective of Latin
American and the Caribbean,” in Frederick Cooper, Allen F. Isaacman, Florencia E. Mallon, William Roseberry, and Steve J. Stern, Confronting Historical Paradigms:  Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America (Madison:  University of Wisconsin Press, 1993), 23-83.  This essay was originally published in AHR 93, no. 4 (1988):  829-72.  This essay problematizes Wallerstein’s notion of a world system with Europe at the center and the rest of the world on the peripheries.  This long essay supercedes Wallerstein’s notion of a world system by showing that Latin America had much more room for innovation and development of its own political, economic, and social structures than Wallerstein’s model suggests.

Suri, Jeremi, “The Significance of the Wider World in American History,” Reviews in American
History 31 (2003):  1-13.  A review of Bender’s, Rethinking American History in a Global Age.

Tyrrell, Ian, “Beyond the View from Euro-America:  Environment, Settler Societies, and the
Industrialization of American History,” in Thomas Bender, ed., Rethinking American History in a Global Age (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2002), 168-191.  in order to study America in a global context, this essay argues that the historian ought to study border regions and transnational exchanges between one national community and a settler society, whose identity incorporates elements from both the society from which the settler society came and the new region which the settler society inhabits.  He also argues for the inclusion of environmental history into the American historical narrative.