Globalization and global history

Globalization and global history / edited by Barry K. Gills and William R. Thompson.

Globalization and Global History argues that globalization is not an exotic and new phenomenon. Instead it emphasises that globalization is something that has been with us as long as there have been people who are both interdependent and aware of that fact. Studying globalization from the vantage po...

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Other Authors: Gills, Barry K., 1956-, Thompson, William R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2006.
Series:Rethinking globalizations ; 2.
Subjects:
Economic history.
Globalization.
International trade.
globalism.
Economic history
Globalization
International trade
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Globalizations, global histories and historical globalities / Barry K. Gills and William R. Thompson
  • 2. Globalizing history and historicizing globalization / Jerry H. Bentley
  • 3. The global animus / Roland Robertson and David Inglis
  • 4. Civilizing processes and international societies / Andrew Linklater
  • 5. Globalizations / David Wilkinson
  • 6. The big collapse / Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
  • 7. (Re)periphalization, (re)incorporation, frontiers and non-state societies / Thomas D. Hall
  • 8. Growth/decline phases and semi-peripheral development in the ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian world-systems / Christopher Chase-Dunn [and others]
  • 9. Early Iron Age economic expansion and contraction revisited / Andre Gunder Frank and William R. Thompson
  • 10. Dark ages / Sing C. Chew
  • 11. Three steps in globalization / Joachim Karl Rennstitch
  • 12. Globalization began in 1571 / Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giráldez
  • 13. Colonies in a globalizing economy, 1815-1948 / Patrick Karl O'Brien.

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