Globalization in world history

"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. The revisions include greater attention to the complications of racism (after 1500) and nationalism (after 1850...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Stearns, Peter N., autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Routledge 2024
Edición:Fourth edition published 2024
Colección:Themes in world history
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Globalization and the challenge to historical analysis
  • Emerging patterns of contact, 1200 bce - 1000 ce : a preparatory phrase
  • The birth of globalization?
  • Transition : the Mongol period
  • The main features of protoglobalization, 1500-1750
  • A late-eighteenth century transition
  • The 1850s as turning point : the birth of modern globalization
  • The great retreat, 1914-1945, and a new transition
  • Contemporary globalization since the 1940s : A New Global History?
  • A new retreat? Signs of disruption in the 21st Century
  • Conclusion : the historical perspective.