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Overview
The revisions include greater attention to the complications of racism (after 1500) and nationalism (after 1850); further analysis of reactions against globalization after World War I and in the 21st century; more discussion of student exchanges; and fuller treatment of developments since 2008, including the role of the Covid-19 pandemic in contemporary globalization.
Four major chronological phases are explored: in the centuries after 1000 CE, after 1500, after 1850, and since the mid-20th century. Discussion of each phase includes relevant debates over the nature and extent of the innovations involved, particularly in terms of transportation/communications technologies and trade patterns. The phase approach also facilitates analysis of the range of interactions enmeshed in globalization, beyond trade and migration, including disease exchange, impacts on culture and consumer tastes, and for the modern periods policy coordination and international organizations. Finally, the book deals with different regional positions and reactions in each of the major phases. This includes not only imbalances of power and economic benefit but also regional styles in dealing with the range of global relationships.
This volume is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of world history, economic history, and political economy.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781032572987 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 11/03/2023 |
Series: | Themes in World History |
Edition description: | 4th ed. |
Pages: | 242 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
- Globalization and the Challenge to Historical Analysis
- Emerging Patterns of Contact, 1200 BCE – 1000 CE: a preparatory phase
- 1000 CE as Turning Point: the birth of globalization?
- Transition: the Mongol Period
- 1500 as Turning Point: the birth of globalization?
- A Late-18th Century Transition
- The 1850s as Turning Point: the birth of globalization?
- The Great Retreat, 1914-1945, and a New Transition
- Globalization since the 1940s: a new global history?
- A New Retreat? Another Decade of Disruption
- Conclusion: The Historical Perspective
Index