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A list of key readings about World history.

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* Bentley, Jerry H. Shapes of World History in Twentieth Century Scholarship. Essays on Global and Comparative History Series. (1996)
* Costello, Paul. World Historians and Their Goals: Twentieth-Century Answers to Modernism (1993).
* Curtin, Philip D. "Depth, Span, and Relevance," The American Historical Review, Vol. 89, No. 1 (Feb., 1984), pp. 1-9 in JSTOR
* Curtin, Philip D. The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire. (2000) 308 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-77135-1. online review
* Dunn, Ross E., ed. The New World History: A Teacher's Companion. (2000). 607pp. ISBN 978-0-312-18327-1 online review
* Frye, Northrop. "Spengler Revisited" in Northrop Frye on modern culture (2003), pp 297-382, first published 1974; online
* Hughes, H. Stuart. Oswald Spengler (1952).
* Hughes-Warrington, Marnie. Palgrave Advances in World Histories (2005), 256pp, articles by scholars
* McInnes, Neil. "The Great Doomsayer: Oswald Spengler Reconsidered." National Interest 1997 (48): 65-76. Issn: 0884-9382 Fulltext: Ebsco
* McNeill, William H. "The Changing Shape of World History." History and Theory 1995 34(2): 8-26. Issn: 0018-2656 in JSTOR
* McNeill, William H., Jerry H. Bentley, and David Christian, eds. Berkshire Encyclopedia Of World History (5 vol 2005)
* Manning, Patrick. Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past (2003), an important guide to the entire field excerpt and text search
* Mazlish, Bruce. "Comparing Global History to World History," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Winter, 1998), pp. 385-395 in JSTOR
* Neiberg, Michael S. Warfare in World History (2001) online edition
* O'Brien, Patrick K., ed. Atlas of World History. (2002)
* Richards, Michael D. Revolutions in World History (2003) online edition
* Roberts, J. M., The New Penguin History of the World (2007)
* Roupp, Heidi, ed. Teaching World History: A Resource Book. (1997), 274pp; online edition
* Smil, Vaclav. Energy in World History (1994) online edition
* Stearns, Peter N. The Industrial Revolution in World History (1998) online edition
* Watts, Sheldon. Disease and Medicine in World History (2003) online edition

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* Dawson, Christopher. Religion and the Rise of Western Culture(1991) excerpt and text search
* McNeill, Robert, and William H. McNeill. The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History (2003) excerpt and text search
* Spengler, Oswald. The Decline of the West (1918-22) vol 1 online; vol 2 online; excerpt and text search, abridged edition