Introduction: interactions between the universal and the local / A.G. Hopkins -- Value added in the production and trade of Navajo textiles: local culture and global demand / Erika Marie Bsumek -- Universals of yesteryear: Hegel's modernity in an age of globalization / Roger Hart -- The cosmopolitanism of national economics: Friedrich List in a Japanese mirror / Mark Metzler -- Internationalist activism and global civil society at the high point of nationalism: the paradox of the Universal Race Congress, 1911 / Tracie Matysik -- Talking machine world: selling the local in the global music industry, 1900-20 / Karl Miller -- Competing forms of globalization in the Middle East: from the Ottoman Empire to the nation state, 1918-67 / Geoffrey D. Schad -- Universal claims, local uses: reconceptualizing the Vietnam Conflict, 1945-60 / Mark Atwood Lawrence -- Globalization and the mythology of the "nation state" / Philip L. White -- Afterword: world history and globalization / William H. McNeill