Draft:Outline of world history

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to world history.

Below is a structured list of topics related to world history:

World history
World history can be described as all of the following:
 * Academic discipline
 * Field of history
 * Branch of historiography

History of the world

 * History of the world
 * Timelines of world history

History of world history

 * History of world history

World history organizations

 * International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC) – approaches world history from the standpoint of comparative civilizations. Founded 1961. Hosts an annual meeting in cities around the world.
 * World History Association (WHA) – primarily American organization established in the 1980s.

World history publications

 * Bibliography of world history (field)

Journals

 * Comparative Civilization Review – published by the ISCSC (see above).
 * Journal of World History – published quarterly by the World History Association since 1990.
 * Journal of Global History – scholarly journal established in 2006 and is published by Cambridge University Press.

World historians

 * Christopher Bayly – The Birth of the Modern World: Global Connections and Comparisons, 1780–1914 (London, 2004)
 * Jerry Bentley (1949-2012) – founder and editor of the Journal of World History
 * Philip D. Curtin (1922-2009) – 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
 * Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) –Religion and the Rise of Western Culture (1950) excerpt and text search
 * Will Durant (1885-1981) and Ariel Durant (1898-1981) – Story of Civilization(1935-1975).
 * Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (b.1950) – "Millennium" (1995), "Civilizations" (2000), "The World" (2007).
 * Francis Fukuyama (1952– ) – The End of History and the Last Man (1992)
 * Peter Haugen – professor of the University of Wisconsin; writer of World History for Dummies
 * Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1830) – philosopher of world history
 * Patrick Manning – Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past (2003)
 * William Hardy McNeill (born 1917) – see especially The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (1963)
 * Robert McNeill and William H. McNeill – The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History (2003) excerpt and text search
 * Jürgen Osterhammel – The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (2014) excerpt
 * Carroll Quigley (1910-1977) – The Evolution of Civilizations (1961), Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966), Weapons Systems and Political Stability: A History (1983)
 * Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968), Russian-American macrosociology; Social and Cultural Dynamics (4 vol., 1937–41)
 * Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) (German) – Decline of the West (1918–22) vol 1 online; vol 2 online; excerpt and text search, abridged edition
 * Peter Stearns, (1936- ) (USA) – World History in Brief: Major Patterns of Change and Continuity, 7th ed. (2009); Encyclopedia of World History, 6th ed. (200pp)
 * Luc-Normand Tellier (Canadian) – Urban World History, PUQ, (2009), 650 pages; online edition
 * Arnold J. Toynbee (British) – A Study of History (1934–61); see especially A Study of History.
 * Eric Voegelin (1901–1985) – Order and History (1956–85)
 * Immanuel Wallerstein – developed the best-known version of the world-systems approach.