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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814740703321

Titolo

Globalization and global history / / edited by Barry Gills and William R. Thompson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2006

ISBN

1-135-99247-9

1-135-99248-7

1-283-83743-9

1-280-37599-X

9786610375998

0-203-79947-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Rethinking globalizations ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

GillsBarry K. <1956->

ThompsonWilliam R

Disciplina

909

Soggetti

Economic history

Globalization

International trade

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographcial references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Globalizations, global histories and historical globalities; 2 Globalizing history and historicizing globalization; 3  The global animus; 4 Civilizing processes and international societies1; 5 Globalizations; 6 The Big Collapse; 7 [Re] periphalization, [re] incorporation, frontiers and non-state societies; 8 Growth/decline phases and semi-peripheral development in the Ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian world-systems1

9 Early Iron Age economic expansion and contraction revisited10 Dark ages; 11 Three steps in globalization; 12 Globalization began in 15711; 13 Colonies in a globalizing economy, 1815-1948; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Globalization and Global History 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