Journal of World History

Matthew P. Romaniello, Editor
matthewromaniello@weber.edu

91¶ÌÊÓƵ is the home to the editorial office of the Journal of World History (JWH). JWH publishes research into historical questions requiring the investigation of evidence on a global, comparative, cross-cultural, or transnational scale. It is devoted to the study of phenomena that transcend the boundaries of single states, regions, or cultures, such as large-scale population movements, long-distance trade, cross-cultural technology transfers, and the transnational spread of ideas. JWH is the official journal of the World History Association , and is published by the University of Hawaii Press .

RECENT AND FORTHCOMING ISSUES

 

Vol. 36, no. 3 (September 2025)

Benjamin Brendel, "Wealth, Health, and the Transnational Pesticide System: Tense Entanglements between the USA and Germany at the End of the Nineteenth Century"

Moritz Koenig and Didim Kizir, "'Under the Yoke of 3 and a Half Dutchmen': Turkish Anticolonialism and Muslim Southeast Asia"

Jennifer Sarah Kain, "Traversing Multiple Sites of Transit: Repatriating 'Mentally Distressed' British Seamen, 1925-1930"

Federico D'Onofrio and Niccolo Mignemi, "Making Perfect Markets: The Demand for Global Numbers at the Origin of the International Institute of Agriculture"

Elizabeth Bishop, "The Cold Stone Kiss: Delice Paloma as World History in an Age of Globalization"

 

Vol. 36, no. 2 (June 2025)

Hyeok Hweon Kang, "Global History and the Measures of Early Modern Technology: Europe, East Asia, and the Case of Smoothbore Ballistics"

Rudolph Ng, "Beating the Odds: A Survival Story of Chinese Immigrants in Nicaragua"

Delwyn Blondell, "'Illustrative Cases of Hereditary Degeneracy': The Use of Family Studies to Support New Zealand's Eugenics Narrative in the 1920s"

Reka Krizmanics, "'A One-Woman Expedition to Get to Know Tanzanian Women': State Socialist Women's Travelogues about Africa in the 1960s-1980s"

Sayaki Chatani, Chien-Wen Kung, and Taomo Zhou, "Strategies of Belonging in the Bandung Era: Diasporas and Cold War Asia"

 

Vol. 36, no. 1 (March 2025)

Bin Yang, "The Making of Elixir: Ambergris, Emperor Jiajing, and the Portuguese Settlement in Macao in 1557"

Nicholas Paul Roberts, "Oceanic Wahhabism"

Kelly Elliott, "'Why Doest Thou Thus?' Providence and Discourses of Difference in Two Nineteenth-Century Missionary Lives"

Marleen Reichgelt and Felicity Jenz, "Papuan Children, Catholic Missionaries, and the Formation of Transimperial Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe"

Pedro Iacobelli and Ignacio Enei, "The Japanese Eye on Latin America through The Japan Times, 1926-1941"

 

Vol. 35, no. 4 (December 2024)

Joshua Batts and Fuyuko Matsukata, "Get it in Writing (If You Can): Regulating Foreign Communities in Tokugawa Japan"

Laura Nenzi, "Globality without Mobility: Ephemera, 1830s-1860s"

Cyrus Schayegh, "A Late/Post-Imperial Region of Difference: The Ottoman Empire and Its Successor Polities in Southeastern Europe, Turkey, and the Arab East, c. 1850s-1940s"

Jeffrey Ryan Harris, "Polynesia Against Paris: Indigenous Anti-Nuclear Literature and the French Colonial Origins of Oceanian Reintegration"

Mikiya Koyagi, "Pan-Asian Decolonization? Iranian Oil, Japanese Tankers, and the Nisshomaru Incident of 1953"

 

Vol. 35, no. 3 (September 2024)

Haiwei Liu, "Hundred Eyes or Hundred Wild Geese: An Examination of How Historical Sources were Made in Marco Polo's Time"

Macabe Keliher, "Ritual in the Early Modern World: Proliferation, State-Formation, and the Work of the Manchu Surrender Ceremony"

Boyi Chen, "The Kelenteng and Annual Rituals: Hokkien Community in Batavia"

Olisa Godson Muojama, "Victims of Nationality: German Civilian Internment in British West Africa during the Second World War"

Mario De Prospo, "Mediation Hub or Active Agent? FAO's Commitment to Rural Welfare during Its First Thirty Years"

 

Vol. 35, no. 2 (June 2024)

Robert Zens, "Reimaging the Ottomans: The Tale of an Ottoman Ayah"

Joshua S. C. Morrison, "Amity, Commerce, and Compromise: Americans, Indians, and the Evolution of Trade on Zanzibar and across the Western Indian Ocean, 1825-1861"

Keith Rathbone, "Maori Rugby in 1920s France: Sport, Race, and Indigeneity" 

Hongxuan Lin, "The Minor Key: Indonesian Marxists Sojourning Abroad"

Rowtem Kowner, "The Puzzle of Rescue and Survival: The Wartime Exodus of Jewish Refugees from Lithuania and their Japanese Savior Redux"

 

Vol. 35, no. 1 (March 2024)

 Bernard Keo, "Colonial City, Global Entanglements: Intra- and Trans-Imperial Networks in George Town, 1786-1937"

Anjuli Webster, "Inter-Imperial Entanglement: The British Claim to Portuguese Delagoa Bay in the Nineteenth Century"

Sophie-Jung Hyun Kim, "Between World-Imagining and World-Making: Politics of Fin-de-Siecle Universalism and Trans-Imperial Indo-US Brotherhood"

Kenzo Okuda, "Britain's Atomic Energy Strategy toward Japan: The Anglo-American 'Special Relationship,' 1945-1959"

Wensheng Wang, "The Value and Prospect of the Needham Question: A Historiographical Reflection and Elaboration"