About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-100415701368

ISBN-139780415701365

eBay Product ID (ePID)45423767

Product Key Features

Number of Pages306 Pages

Publication NameGlobalization and Global History

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEconomic History, International / Economics, Globalization, General, International Relations / General

Publication Year2006

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Business & Economics

AuthorWilliam Thompson

SeriesRethinking Globalizations Ser.

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2005-015668

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsDistinguished scholars from half a dozen disciplines offer a rich smorgasbord of perspectives and insights on the globalizing process, its character, its antiquity, and its implications. Henceforth all serious discussion of globalization will need to take this volume into accounts. J.R. McNeill, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA This book has an enormously important message: that social science must embrace not just history but big history and deep history if it is to understand the modern world. Andrew Sherratt, University of Oxford, UK This is a very useful collection of state-of-the-art papers on the study of globalization in world history. The book admirably integrates perspectives from economic history, archaeology, sociology, and political science to show that recent global processes have antecedents stretching several centuries or even millennia into the past. Although the chapters differ on how globalization is to be defined and on its antiquity, they are always challenging, often incisive, and sometimes brilliant. Alf Hornborg, Lund University, Sweden Globalization and Global History is conceptually sophisticated, substantively rich, theoretically broad, and truly impressive in its historical depth. This collection goes well beyond any other effort at uncovering the long-term history of various processes that we recognize as part of 'globalization', and rewards the reader with a myriad of insights and research topics in the process. Robert A. Denemark, University of Delaware, USA Written by leading world system scholars, this volume is a feast of findings on how globalization has unfolded in global history. In the last five centuries, world history has been largely Eurocentric. The authors of this volume correct that trend by focusing on the past waves of globalization through imperial or commercial systems. In the current round, globalization is both integrating and disintegrating the world as we know it. The lessons of this volume are valuable to scholars of global history. But they are also vital to all citizens and policy makers. Majid Tehranian, Director, Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, USA

Series Volume NumberVol. 2

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal909

Table Of Content"Globalizations, Global Histories, and Globalizations" Barry K. Gills and William R. Thompson "Globalizing History and Historicising Globalization" Jerry H. Bentley "The Global Animus : In the Tracks of Historical Consciousness" Roland Robertson and David Inglis "Civilizing Processes and International Societies" Andrew Linklater "Globalizations: The First Ten, Hundred, Five Thousand, and Million Years" David Wilkinson "The Big Collapse: A Brief Cosmology of Globalization" Claudio Cioffi-Revilla "[Re} Peripheralization, [Re] Incorporation, Frontiers and Nonstate Societies: Continuities and Discontinuities in Globalization Processes" Thomas D. Hall "Growth/Decline Phases and Semiperipheral Development in the Ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian World-Systems" Christopher Chase-Dunn, Daniel Pasciuti, Alexis Alvarez, and Thomas D. Hall "Early Iron Age Economic Expansion and Contraction Revisited" Andre Gunder Frank and William R. Thompson "Dark Ages: Ecological Crisis Phases and System Transition" Sing C. Chew "Three Steps in Globalization: Global Networks from 1000 B.C.E. to 2050 C.E." Joachim Karl Rennstich "Globalization Began in 1571" Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giraldez "Colonies in a Globalizing Economy, 1815-1948" Patrick Karl O'Brien Contributors Index

SynopsisGlobalization 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., 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 transformations and to compare them to earlier iterations.

LC Classification NumberJZ1318