Globalization and Global History

by Barry K. Gills (Editor), William Thompson (Editor)

Overview

Globalization and Global History argues that globalization is not an exotic and new 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.

Studying globalization from the vantage point of long-term global history permits theoretical and empirical investigation, allowing the authors collected 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.

The book is divided into three sections. The first focuses on how globalization has been written about from a historical perspective. The second part advances three different takes on how best to view globalization from a very long-term stance. The final section continues this interpretative thread by examining more narrow aspects of globalization processes, ranging from incorporation processes to systemic disruptions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135992477
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/12/2012
Series:	ISSN
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	324
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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