Description
Book SynopsisThis collaborative study explores moments in the history of globalization and autonomy to provide insights into changes overtaking the contemporary world.
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction / Stephen M. Streeter, John C. Weaver, and William D. Coleman
2 Tibet and the Chinese World-Empire / Timothy Brook
3 Litigating for Freedom in the British Empire, 1815-22: The Universal and Local in Tension / John C. Weaver
4 Ottoman Military and Social Transformations, 1826-28: Engagement and Resistance in a Moment of Global Imperialism / Virginia Aksani
5 Wired Religion: Spiritualism and Telegraphic Globalization in the Nineteenth Century / Jeremy Stolow
6 The Internationalization of Capital Then and Now: The Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Samir Saul
7 Global Industrial Enclaves: Company Towns and Export-Processing Zones Compared, 1900-2000 / Neil White
8 Freedom of the Ether or the Electromagnetic Commons? Globality, the Public Interest, and Multilateral Radio Negotiations in the 1920s / Daniel Gorman
9 A Globalization Moment: Franklin D. Roosevelt in Casablanca (January 1943) and the Decolonization/Development Impulse / Ronald W. Pruessen
10 Paradigm Shift and the Nuremberg Trials: The Emergence of the Individual as a Subject and Object of International Law / Adrian L. Jones
11 The US-Led Globalization Project in the Third World: The Struggle for Hearts and Minds in Guatemala and Vietnam in the 1960s / Stephen M. Streeter
12 A Globalizing Moment: The United Nations' Decades for Development and the North African Countries / Yassine Essid
13 Snakes That Are Rainbows: Indigenous Worldviews and the Constitution of Autonomy / Ravi De Costa
14 Globalization and US Empire: Moments in the Forging of the Global Turn / Ulf Hedetoft
Notes; Works Cited; Contributors; Index
