World Histories from Below

Antoinette Burton is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, USA. Her recent publications include An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire: Or a Primer of Conquest, Dissent and Disruption (Bloomsbury, 2017) and How Empire Shaped Us (Bloomsbury, 2016). Tony Ballantyne is Professor of History at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His recent publications include Entanglements of empire: Missionaries, Maori, and the question of the body (2014) and co-edited with Antoinette Burton Empires and the reach of the global: 1870-1945 (2009).

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Introduction: Keywords: "World History," "Below," and "Dissent and Disruption", Antoinette Burton and Tony Ballantyne
1. Modern Political Revolutions: Connecting Grassroots Political Dissent and Global Historical Transformations, M.J. Maynes and Ann Waltner
2. International and Global Anti-Colonial Movements, Heather Streets-Salter
3. Insurgent Citizenship: Armed Rebellions and Everyday Acts of Resistance in the Global South, Eileen M. Ford
4. Indigeneity, Movement, and Disrupting the Global Nineteenth Century, T. J. Tallie
5. Body Politics, Sexualities, and the "Modern Family" in Global History, Durba Ghosh
6. The Persistence of the Gods: Religion in the Modern World, Tony Ballantyne
7. Global Mobilities, Clare Anderson
8. The Anthropocene from Below, Nancy J. Jacobs, Danielle Johnstone and Christopher Kelly
9. The Anthropocene’s “Belows”: Nature and Power in Global History, Robert Rouphail