Acknowledgements List of Maps, Illustrations and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: A World of Narratives, Jeremy Adelman & Andreas Eckert (Princeton University, USA, and Humboldt University, Germany) Section I: Stories of Peoplehood 1. "This Nation is a Globe": Narratives of Global Integration in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Matthew Karp (Princeton University, USA) 2. Three Chinese Politicians': National Narratives of Global Integration and Their Influences on History Writing in China, Maohong Bao (Fudan University, China) 3. Going Beyond the "Western Impact" Narrative: China as a World Power, 1850-1950, Xavier Paule`s (EHESS Paris France) 4. Fighting ‘the warfare of peacetime’: Japan’s Quest for National Narratives during the Late Nineteenth Century, Mayuko Sano (Kyoto University, Japan) 5. Toyo (the East) and Asia: The Transition of Japanese Self-Consciousness from the 1850s to the 1940s, Haneda Masashi (University of Tokyo, Japan) 6. Decolonization Narratives - Indonesia in the Global World, 1920s - 1960s, Vincent Houben (Humboldt University, Germany) 7. Applying Global History to the Study of War: Transnational Narratives of Resilience under Aerial Bombardment, Sheldon Garon (Princeton University, USA) Section II: Empires and Other Great Powers 8. Renegotiating the Soviet Union: Soviet Central Asian Elites and Decolonization, 1950s-1970s, Marc Elie (EHESS Paris, France) 9. The Boomerang of Imperial Sovereignty: Bosnia-Herzegovina in the Eye of the World Storm, Natasha Wheatley (Princeton University, USA) 10. A Century of Convergences: Contested Concepts of Economic Integration, 1919-2019, Jeremy Adelman, Abigail Kret, Marlène Rosano-Grange, and Bruno Settis (Princeton University, USA, and Sciences Po, Paris, France) 11. Narrating Progress: Developmental Regimes in Semi- and Anti-Colonial Southeast Asia, Benjamin Baumann, Vincent Houben, Disha Jani (Humboldt University, Germany, and Princeton University, USA) Section III: Other World Products 12. Narrating Global Order: Stories about and around the United Nations, Pierre-Yves Cadalen, Connor Mills and Karoline Postel Vinay (Sciences Po, Paris, France) 13. Global Narratives of “the Immigrant”, Megan Armknecht, Markus Bierkoch, and Beth Lew-Williams (Princeton University, USA, and Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) 14. Global Integration, Social Disintegration: Edward Long’s History Jamaica (1774), Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS Paris, France) 15. Demanding Publics: Struggles over the Meaning of Work in Late Colonial East and West Africa, Fabian Krautwald, Kerstin Stubenvoll and Andreas Eckert (Binghamton University, USA and Humboldt University, Germany) 16. Narrating Backwardness and the Russian Case, Alessandro Stanziani (EHESS Paris, France) 17. Discovering the Periphery, Jeremy Adelman, Laetitia Lenel, and Pablo Pryluka (Princeton University, USA, and Humboldt University, Germany) Coda: Narratives in an Embattled World, Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen, Germany) Bibliography Notes

This edited volume explores how societies developed concepts such as the nation, the world market and the migrant through collective narratives to make sense of and to manage global pressures and opportunities.