TY  - BOOK
AU  - Osterhammel,Jürgen
AU  - Geyer,Dona
AU  - Petersson,Niels P.
TI  - Globalization: A Short History 
SN  - 9781400824328
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Westernization, Americanization
KW  - capital markets, capital flow
KW  - civilizations
KW  - colonies
KW  - communication
KW  - consumption
KW  - culture
KW  - decolonialization
KW  - deglobalization, fragmentation
KW  - diaspora
KW  - distance, space
KW  - empire
KW  - environment
KW  - epidemics
KW  - free trade
KW  - globalization (term, definition)
KW  - globalization thrusts
KW  - ideologies
KW  - imperialism
KW  - institutions
KW  - interaction sphere
KW  - international organizations
KW  - international system
KW  - language
KW  - markets
KW  - media
KW  - migration, immigration and emigration
KW  - military, weaponry
KW  - money, currency
KW  - nation-state
KW  - network
KW  - region, regionalism
KW  - religions
KW  - science and knowledge
KW  - slavery, slave trade
KW  - state
KW  - technology
KW  - time
KW  - trade
KW  - transportation
KW  - travel, tourism
KW  - universalization
KW  - war
KW  - world economy, global economy
KW  - world politics
KW  - world system
KW  - world war
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; I. "Globalization": Circumnavigating a Term --; II. The Dimensions of Globalization --; III. The Development and Establishment of Worldwide Connections Until 1750 --; IV. 1750-1880: Imperialism, Industrialization, and Free Trade --; V. 1880-1945: Global Capitalism and Global Crises --; VI. 1945 to the Mid-1970s: Globalization Split in Two --; VII. Conclusion --; Notes --; Recommended Literature --; Index; restricted access
N2  - "Globalization" has become a popular buzzword for explaining today's world. The expression achieved terminological stardom in the 1990s and was soon embraced by the general public and integrated into numerous languages. But is this much-discussed phenomenon really an invention of modern times? In this work, Jürgen Osterhammel and Niels Petersson make the case that globalization is not so new, after all. Arguing that the world did not turn "global" overnight, the book traces the emergence of globalization over the past seven or eight centuries. In fact, the authors write, the phenomenon can be traced back to early modern large-scale trading, for example, the silk trade between China and the Mediterranean region, the shipping routes between the Arabian Peninsula and India, and the more frequently traveled caravan routes of the Near East and North Africa--all conduits for people, goods, coins, artwork, and ideas. Osterhammel and Petersson argue that the period from 1750 to 1880--an era characterized by the development of free trade and the long-distance impact of the industrial revolution--represented an important phase in the globalization phenomenon. Moreover, they demonstrate how globalization in the mid-twentieth century opened up the prospect of global destruction though nuclear war and ecological catastrophe. In the end, the authors write, today's globalization is part of a long-running transformation and has not ushered in a "global age" radically different from anything that came before. This book will appeal to historians, economists, and anyone in the social sciences who is interested in the historical emergence of globalization
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400824328?locatt=mode:legacy
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