It will appeal to anyone interested in globalization and its origins.
In this third edition of Globalization in World History, Peter Stearns explores the roots of contemporary globalization, examining shifts in the global flow of people, goods, and ideas as early as 1000 CE. Exploring how four moments in ...
This volume is the first by a teamof historians to address these issues. Globalization in World History has two distinctive features. First, ittraces the history of globalization across nearly three centuries.
This book is an important addition to one of history's most exciting new fields."--Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History "Sebastian Conrad ranks among the best and brightest historians of his generation.
The book brings together research conducted by the authors over the past decade—work that has profoundly influenced how economic history is now written and that has found audiences in economics and history, as well as in the popular press ...
Containing suggestions for further reading and guidance on the ways in which primary source material can be used as a basis for global historical studies, this is the ideal volume for all students interested in the global exchanges between ...
Building. globalization's. infrastructure. after. 1850. Nineteenth-century imperialism was the product of industrial expansionism and capitalism. It relied on private enterprise and the active promotion of imperial endeavours by ...
But is this much-discussed phenomenon really an invention of modern times? In this work, Jürgen Osterhammel and Niels Petersson make the case that globalization is not so new, after all.
In this work, Jurgen Osterhammel and Niels Petersson make the case that globalization is not so new, after all.
Hopkins' introduction places the new global history in the context of world, international and transational history, and an afterword by historian William H. McNeill concludes the volume.
(1987) 'The ancient economy, transferable technologies and the Bronze Age world system: a view from the northeastern frontier of the Ancient Near East', in Rowlands, M., Larsen, M. and Kristansen, K. (eds) Centre and Periphery in the ...