Introduction: Globalization - an agenda for historians / A.G. Hopkins -- The history of globalization - and the globalization of history? / A.G. Hopkins -- 'Archaic' and 'Modern' globalizatoin in the Eurasian and African arena, c. 1750-1850 / C.A. Bayly -- Muslim universalism and western globalization / Amira K. Bennison -- The collaboration of labour: slaves, empires and globalizations in the Atlantic world, c.1600-1850 -- Empire, knowledge and culture: from proto-globalization to modern globalization / Tony Ballantyne -- Empire, diaspora and the language of globalism, 1850-1914 / T.N. Harper -- The onrush of modern globalization in China / Hans van de Ven -- Globalization, ethnicity and democracy: a view from 'the hopeless continent' / John Lonsdale -- Globalization with and without empires: from Bali to Labrador / A.G. Hopkins -- American globalism: mass, motion and the multiplier effect / David Reynolds.