Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God (2000). A comparison of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic fundamentalism in historical perspective.

Nayan Chanda, Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization (2007). An engaging, sometimes humorous, long-term view of the globalization process.

Jeffry A. Frieden, Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (2006). A thorough, thoughtful, and balanced history of economic globalization.

Michael Hunt, The World Transformed (2004). A thoughtful global history of the second half of the twentieth century.

J. R. McNeill, Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (2001). A much-acclaimed global account of the rapidly mounting human impact on the environment during the most recent century.

Bonnie G. Smith, ed., Global Feminisms since 1945 (2000). A series of essays about feminist movements around the world.

“Globalization,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oTLyPPrZE4. A brief eight-minute animated primer on the causes and consequences of globalization.

“No Job for a Woman,” http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/30/women/index.htm. A Web site illustrating the impact of war on the lives of women in the twentieth century.