Main group 1

• Arnold, David, The tropics and the traveling gaze: India, landscape, and science, 1800-1856, Seattle, University of Washington Press, c2006Compulsory*
• Bayly, Christopher Alan, Imperial meridian: the British Empire and the world, 1780-1830., London, Longman, 1989Compulsory*
• Bayly, Christopher Alan, The birth of the modern world, 1780-1914: global connections and comparisons, Oxford, Blackwell, 2004Compulsory*
• Cederlöf, Gunnel, Fixed boundaries, fluid landscapes: British expansion into Northern East Bengal in the 1820s, Part of: The Indian economic and social history review., 2009Compulsory*
• Cooper, Frederick, Colonialism in question: theory, knowledge, history, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2005Compulsory*
• Drayton, Richard, where does the world historian write from, Part of: Journal of contemporary history.., 2011Compulsory*
• Edney, Matthew H, Mapping an empire: the geographical construction of British India, 1765-1843, Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1997Compulsory*
• Ferguson, Niall, Colossus: the price of America's empire, New York, Penguin Press, cop. 2004Compulsory*
• Fernández-Armesto, Felipe., The Americas: a hemispheric history, 2005 Modern Library paperback ed., New York, Modern Library, 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*
• Kaviraj, Sudipta, The imaginary institution of India: politics and ideas, New York, Columbia University Press, cop. 2010Compulsory*
• McNeill, John Robert, Mosquito empires: ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010Compulsory*
• Mitchell, Timothy, Rule of experts: Egypt, techno-politics, modernity, Berkeley, University of California Press, c2002Compulsory*
• O'Rourke, Kevin; Williamson, Jeffrey, When did globalisation begin?, Part of: European review of economic history., 2002, p. 23–50Compulsory*
• Onuf, Peter, We Shall All Be Americans and Republican Empire, in Onuf, Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000Compulsory*
• Pitts, Jennifer, A turn to empire: the rise of imperial liberalism in Britain and France, Princeton, N.J., Princeton Unversity Press, cop. 2005Compulsory*
• Pomeranz, Kenneth, The great divergence: China, Europa, and the making of the modern world economy, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2000Compulsory*
• Washbrook, David, India 1818-1860: The Two Faces of Colonialism, Part of: The Oxford history of the British Empire.: Vol. 3 The nineteenth century, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999, vol. 3, p. 395–421Compulsory*
• Witgen, Michael, Duke University Press The Rituals of Possession: Native Identity and the Invention of Empire in Seventeenth-Century Western North America, Part of: Ethnohistory: the official journal of the American Society for Ethnohistory., vol. 54, no. 4Compulsory*
• Zakaria, Fareed, The post-American World: and the rise of the rest, London, Penguin Books, 2009Compulsory*

* Compulsory