List of images (vii) | List of maps (viii) | List of authors (ix) | Acknowledgements (xi) | Introduction: A world of narratives - Jeremy Adelman and Andreas Eckert (1) 1. ‘This nation is a globe’: Exceptionalism and universalism in the nineteenth-century United States - Matthew Karp (19) | 2. Narratives of power: Political thoughts and the framework of world history in modern China - BAO Ma…