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Required Books:
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1. Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Before European Hegemony: The World System
     A.D. 1250-1350. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
2. Beckert, Sven. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
3. Christian, David. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
4. Crossley, Pamela Kyle. What Is Global History? Cambridge: Polity,
2008.
5. Hunt, Lynn. Writing History in the Global Era. New York: Norton,
2014.
6. Marks, Robert B. Origins of the Modern World: A Global and
     Environmental Narrative. 3rd ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
7. McNeill, John Robert, and William Hardy McNeill.  The Human Web: A
     Bird’s-Eye View of World History. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.
8. Ropp, Paul. China in World History. Oxford University Press,
2010. ISBN: 9780195381955
9. Said, Edward W. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books, 2004.
10. Wright, Donald R. The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A
      History of Globalization in Niumi, the Gambia. Armonk, N.Y.:
Sharpe, 2010.