Márcia Abreu (Universidade de Campinas, Brazil), Dr Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva (University College London, UK)
The beginnings of what we now call globalization dates from the early sixteenth century, when Europeans, in particular the Iberian monarchies, began to connect the four parts of the world . From the end of the eighteenth and throughout the nineteenth centuries, technical advancements, such as the growth of the European rail network and the increasing ease of international shipping, narrowed the physical and imagined distances between different parts of the globe. Books, printed matter and theatrical performances were a crucial part of this process and the so-called long nineteenth century saw...
The beginnings of what we now call globalization dates from the early sixteenth century, when Europeans, in particular the Iberian monarchies, began t...