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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459509003321

Titolo

Empires and autonomy [[electronic resource] ] : moments in the history of globalization / / edited by Stephen M. Streeter, John C. Weaver, and William D. Coleman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-74051-2

9786612740510

0-7748-1601-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (394 p.)

Collana

Globalization + autonomy, , 1913-7494

Altri autori (Persone)

ColemanWilliam D <1950-> (William Donald)

WeaverJohn C

StreeterStephen M

Disciplina

303.48/209

Soggetti

Globalization - History

Nation-state and globalization - History

Imperialism - History

Autonomy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction -- 2 Tibet and the Chinese World-Empire -- 3 Litigating for Freedom in the British Empire, 1815-22: The Universal and Local in Tension -- 4 Ottoman Military and Social Transformations, 1826-28: Engagement and Resistance in a Moment of Global Imperialism -- 5 Wired Religion: Spiritualism and Telegraphic Globalization in the Nineteenth Century -- 6 The Internationalization of Capital: The Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 7 Global Industrial Enclaves: Company Towns and Export- Processing Zones Compared, 1900-2000-- 8 Freedom of the Ether or the Electromagnetic Commons? Globality, the Public Interest, and Multilateral Radio Negotiations in the 1920's -- 9 A Globalization Moment: Franklin D. Roosevelt in Casablanca (January 1943) and the Decolonization/Development Impulse -- 10 Paradigm Shift and the Nuremberg Trials: The Emergence of the Individual as a Subject and Object of International



Law -- 11 The US-Led Globalization Project in the Third World: The Struggle for Hearts and Minds in Guatemala and Vietnam in the 1960's -- 12 A Globalizing Moment: The United Nations' Decades for Development and the North African Countries -- 13 Snakes That Are Rainbows: Indigenous Worldviews and the Constitution of Autonomy -- 14 Globalization and US Empire: Moments in the Forging of the Global Turn.