ISBN:
9781000993714
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (243 pages)
Edition:
4th ed.
Series Statement:
Themes in World History Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.48/209
Keywords:
Globalization-History
;
World history
;
International economic relations-History
Abstract:
In this fully revised fourth edition, this book treats globalization from several vantage points, showing how these help grasp the nature of globalization both in the past and today.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: Context -- 1. Globalization and the Challenge to Historical Analysis -- 2. Emerging Patterns of Contact, 1200 BCE-1000 CE: A Preparatory Phase -- PART II: Early Globalization, 1000-1450 CE -- 3. The Birth of Globalization? -- 4. Transition: The Mongol Period -- PART III: Protoglobalization -- 5. The Main Features of Protoglobalization, 1500-1750 -- 6. A Late-18th-Century Transition -- PART IV: Modern Globalization, 1850-1945 -- 7. The 1850s as Turning Point: The Birth of Modern Globalization -- 8. The Great Retreat, 1914-45, and a New Transition -- PART V: Contemporary Globalization: The Most Recent Phase and Its Backlash -- 9. Contemporary Globalization since the 1940s: A New Global History? -- 10. A New Retreat?: The Signs of Disruption in the 21st Century -- 11. Conclusion: The Historical Perspective -- Index.
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