The History of Empire: Cultures, Political Systems and Economies, 1500-2000

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• Bayly, C A, Ireland, India and the Empire, 1780-1914, Royal Historical Society Transactions 10, pp 377-397, CambridgeCompulsory*
• Bayly, Christopher Alan, The birth of the modern world, 1780-1914: global connections and comparisons, Oxford, Blackwell, 2004Compulsory*
• Edney, Matthew H, Mapping an empire: the geographical construction of British India, 1765-1843, Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1997Compulsory*
• Fergusson, Niall, The unconscious colossus: Limits of (and alternatives to) American empire, Daedalus 134, pp 18-33, 2005Compulsory*
• Flynn, Dennis; Williamson, Arturo Giraldez, Path dependence, time lags and the birth of globalisation: A critique of O'Rourke and Williamson, in European Review of Economic History 8, pp 81-108, 2004Compulsory*
• The new Cambridge history of India.: 4:3 Caste, society and politics in India from the eighteenth century to the modern age, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999Compulsory*
• O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, Jeffrey G., When did globalization begin?, Cambridge, Mass., 2000Compulsory*
• Pomeranz, Kenneth, The great divergence: China, Europa, and the making of the modern world economy, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2000Compulsory*
• Rajan, S. Ravi, Modernizing nature: forestry and imperial eco-development 1800-1950, Oxford, Oxford University Press, cop. 2006Compulsory*
• Stoler, Ann Laura, Carnal knowledge and imperial power: race and the intimate in colonial rule, Berkeley, University of California Press, c2002Compulsory*
• Washbrook, David A, South India 1770-1840: The Colonial Transition, Modern Asia Studies 38/3, pp 479-516Compulsory*

* Compulsory