Globalization and Global History

ISBN-13: 9780415701372 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 302 str.

Dr Barry K. Gills; William R. Thompson

Opis

This new volume argues that globalization is not a new and exotic phenomenon. Instead it emphasizes 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.
Contemporary concerns about globalization are hard to avoid. Growing interdependence benefits some and marginalizes others. History is often described from a local perspective, making events seem particularistic and disconnected, rather than being enmeshed in a much larger network of interdependent events. Studying globalization from the vantage point of long-term global history permits theoretical and empirical investigation allowing the contributors to this volume to assess the extent of ongoing transformations and to compare them to earlier iterations. With this historical advantage, the extent of ongoing changes - which previously appeared unprecedented - can be contrasted to similar episodes in the past.
This interdisciplinary volume includes chapters written by historians, sociologists and political scientists. It will appeal to anyone interested in globalization and its origins.

Spis treści

1. Globalizations, Global Histories, and Historical Globalities 2. Globalizing History and Historicising Globalization  3. The Global Animus: In the Tracks of Historical Consciousness  4. Civilizing Processes and International Societies  5. Globalizations: The First Ten, Hundred, Five Thousand, and Million Years  6. The Big Collapse: A Brief Cosmology of Globalization  7. [Re} Peripheralization, [Re] Incorporation, Frontiers and Nonstate Societies: Continuities and Discontinuities in Globalization Processes 8. Growth/Decline Phases and Semiperipheral Development in the Ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian World-Systems  9. Early Iron Age Economic Expansion and Contraction Revisited  10. Dark Ages: Ecological Crisis Phases and System Transition  11.Three Steps in Globalization: Global Networks from 1000 B.C.E. to 2050 C.E.  12. Globalization Began in 1571 13. Colonies in a Globalizing Economy, 1815-1948

O autorze

Barry K. Gills is Reader in International Politics at the University of Newcastle, UK and Director of the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawaii, USA. William R. Thompson is Rogers Professor of Political Science at the University of Indiana, USA.