Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Globalization and world history: An introduction to studies of methods -- 1. Historians, superhistory, and climate change -- 2. On source criticismin world history -- 3. Four myths in global agrarian history -- 4. Archaeological investigations, interpretations, and theories -- 5. What can be understood, compared, and counted as context? -- 6. Core and periphery in the early modern world system -- 7. National accounts in world history -- Index.