UID:
almahu_9949383768202882
Format:
1 online resource (209 pages)
Edition:
3rd ed.
ISBN:
9781000650754
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1000650758
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9780429299032
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0429299036
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9781000650938
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1000650936
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9781315561370
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1315561379
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9781000650846
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1000650847
Series Statement:
Themes in World History Ser.
Content:
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 history have accelerated the process of globalization, Stearns's narrative details how factors such as economics, migration, disease transmission, culture, the environment, and politics have influenced the nature of globalization as we understand it today. Thisrevised edition includes: Updates to the whole study with appropriate recent references; New brief transition sections that focus attention on the Mongol period, debates over the role of theeighteenth century, and the partial retreat from globalization after World War I; A new final chapter that deals with the rise in attacks on globalization during the most recent decade, from populist objections to the implications of growing authoritarianism, raising the question of whether a new transition is taking shape around us today. Through an interdisciplinary approach that links political, sociological, and historical perspectives, Stearns provides a comprehensive overview of globalization and the historical factors that have shaped it. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of world history, economic history, and political economy.
Note:
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Globalization and the Challenge to Historical Analysis; Further Readings; 2. Emerging Patterns of Contact, 1200 BCE-1000 CE: A Preparatory Phase; Further Readings; 3. 1000 CE as Turning Point: The Birth of Globalization?; Arabs as Trans-regional Leaders; New Technology; New Routes; Impacts; Regional Patterns; 1000 CE and the Stages of Globalization; Further Readings; 4. Transition: The Mongol Period; Further Readings; 5. 1500 as Turning Point: The Birth of Globalization?; Technology
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Global Inclusion: The Americas and Pacific OceaniaGlobal Consequences: Trade, Diseases, Migrations, Foods, and Environments; Global Organizations: The International Trading Companies; Global Inequalities and Regional Patterns; Continuities in Asia and Africa; The Limitations of Early Modern Globalization; The Problem of Culture; 1500 as Turning Point; Further Readings; 6. A Late-Eighteenth Century Transition; Change #1: Toward the New Consumerism; Change #2: Expansion of European Manufacturing Capacity; Change #3: New Attitudes About the World; Conclusion; Further Readings
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7. The 1850s as Turning Point: The Birth of Globalization?A Novel Choice?; New Technologies and Systems; Toward Freer Trade and Imperialism; Trade and International Business; Migration; Tourism; Foods, Diseases, Technology Diffusion, and the Environment; The Emergence of Global Political Institutions; Cultural Globalization: Some New Steps; Sports as a Lead Item in Globalization; Movies and Global Popular Culture; Continuities and Limitations; The Rise of Nationalism; Regional Patterns; The Late-Nineteenth Century as Crucible; Further Readings
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8. The Great Retreat, 1914-1945, and a New TransitionThe Great War; Ambiguity and Persistence; Conclusion: Back to Transition; Further Readings; 9. Globalization Since the 1940s: A New Global History?; The New Framework: Technology, Policy, and Language; Facets of Globalization: Trade and Inequalities; Migration, Travel, and Global Communities; An Organizational Revolution? Multinationals and INGOs; Global Politics; Global Health; Cultural Globalization; A Global Youth Culture?; The Global Environment; Global Protest; Regional Patterns; Global Accumulations and Innovations; Further Readings
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10. A New Retreat? Another Decade of DisruptionMore of the Same; A New Globalization Crisis?; The Rise of Authoritarianism; New Resistance in the West: A Resurgence of Nationalism; Further Readings; 11. Conclusion: The Historical Perspective; Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Stearns, Peter N. Globalization in World History. Milton : Routledge, ©2019 ISBN 9780367271862
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429299032
