Barry Gills / William R. Thompson (eds.)

Globalization and Global History

Herausgeber: Gills, Barry K.; Thompson, William

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that globalization is not an exotic and new phenomenon. The authors collected here study globalization from the vantage point of long-term global history, thereby enabling them to assess the extent of ongoing transformations and to compare them to earlier iterations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780415701372
• ISBN-10: 0415701376
• Artikelnr.: 21782664

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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