Globalization in World History

ISBN-13: 9781032572987 / Miękka / 2023 / 256 str.

USA) Stearns Peter N. (George Mason University

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Part 1: Context 1. Globalization and the Challenge to Historical Analysis 2. Emerging Patterns of Contact, 1200 BCE – 1000 CE: a preparatory phrase Part 2: Early Globalization 3. The Birth of Globalization? 4. Transition: the Mongol period Part 3: Protoglobalization 5. The Main Features of Protoglobalization, 1500-1750 6. A Late-Eighteenth Century Transition Part 4: Modern Globalization, 1850-1945 7. The 1850s as Turning Point: The Birth of Modern Globalization 8. The Great Retreat, 1914-1945, and a New Transition Part 5: Contemporary Globalization: The Most Recent Phase and Its Backlash 9. Contemporary Globalization since the 1940s: A New Global History? 10. A New Retreat? Signs of Disruption in the 21^st Century 11. Conclusion: The Historical Perspective

O autorze

Peter Stearns is Distinguished University Professor of History at George Mason University. For several decades he has regularly taught world history and globalization courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. He has published titles in the Themes in World History series, on subjects including time, human rights, and happiness with his latest release Punishment in World History.