The material of world history [electronic resource] / edited by Tina Mai Chen and David S. Churchill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1: Material Matters : Recognizing the Confluence of World History and Historical Materialism / Tina Mai Chen, David S. Churchill, and Susie Fisher Stoesz -- Chapter 2: What is World History? A Critique of Pure Ideology / Rebecca Karl -- Section One: The "Blind Spots" of Historical Materialism -- Chapter 3: Language, State, and Global Capitalism : "Global English" and Historical Materialism / Peter Ives -- Chapter 4: Open Secrets : Class, Affect, and Sexuality / Rosemary Hennessy -- Chapter 5: "As Its Foundations Totter" : International Imperialism, Gendered Racial Capitalism, and the U.S. Literary Left in the Early Cold War / John Munro -- Section Two: World History and Interconnectivity : Re-engaging Materialism and its Abstractions -- A. Spatial Categories and Norms of Interconnectedness -- Chapter 6: World History and International Relations : Disrupting the Discipline of the State / Todd Scarth -- Chapter 7: Local Struggles, Transnational Connections : Latin American Intellectuals and the Congress for Cultural Freedom / Jorge Nallim -- B. Denaturalizing Economic Thought -- Chapter 8: Perpetual Peace, Technology, and Effeminacy : Adam Smith and Eighteenth-Century Debates / Erik Thomson -- Chapter 9: Understanding Global Interconnectedness : Catastrophic Generic Change / Mary Poovey -- Section Three: Dialectical Inquiry, Historical Materialism, and the Localities of World History -- Chapter 10: Where the Dead Queued for Fuel : Zimbabweans Remember the Fuel Crisis and its Impact on the Funeral Industry, 1999-2008 / Joyce M. Chadya -- Chapter 11: "We Are All Migrant Laborers" : Democracy and Universal Politics / Hyun Ok Park.