{"product_id":"globalization-9780691133959","title":"Globalization","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArguing that the world did not turn 'global' overnight, this book traces the emergence of globalization. It demonstrates how globalization in the mid-twentieth century opened up the prospect of global destruction though nuclear war and ecological catastrophe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJurgen Osterhammel, Winner of the 2017 Toynbee Prize, Toynbee Prize Foundation Jurgen Osterhammel, Winner of the 2012 Gerda Henkel Prize, of the Gerda Henkel Foundation \"Jurgen Osterhammel and Niels P. Petersson argue that ... globalization has been long under way. While civilizations have always interacted, the stability and scale of western Europe's post-Columbian global networks of trade, migration, and cultural exchange differed qualitatively enough to count as the first stirrings of a globalization that continues to this day.\"--Choice \"[Globalization] stands out in the proliferation of textbooks and surveys on world history and globalization. It is a concise and, especially noteworthy, a precise essay on the time and place of globalization... [T]his is a quick and intelligent little book.\"--Michael Geyer, H-Net \"[Osterhammel and Petersson] have produced a short and extremely helpful introduction to the history of globalization... [The book] rightly tries to reach far beyond the more narrow confines of economic history ... [to] draw on migration history, the history of slavery and of empires, and ... international relations theory.\"--Harold James, International History Review \"This brief book provides an easy-to-read, well-organized addition to the globalization debate that offers a cogent analysis of the macroprocess by elucidating the long and uneven global developments that have brought us to the current era.\"--Colin Rowan, Journal of World History \"In this crisp account, two historians examine the long roots of globalization... Scholars of world history will gain a great deal from this lucid, jargon-free analysis of globalization that is in many ways a most welcomed update of William H. McNeill's The Global Condition.\"--The Historian \"This excellent short book by German historians Jurgen Osterhammel and Niels P. Peteresson provides a fascinating, accessible sketch of the development of globalization. The authors bridge the gap between academic historians and general readers.\"--getAbstract\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface vii  Chapter I. \"Globalization\": Circumnavigating a Term 1  A Diagnosis of the Present and a Term for a Historical Process 1  The Core Concept and the Controversies 5  Chapter II. The Dimensions of Globalization 13  World System--Imperialism--Global History 14  Networks and Interaction Spheres 21  Historical Periods 27  Chapter III. The Development and Establishment of Worldwide Connections Until 1750 31  Long-distance Trade, Empires, Ecumenes 31  Gunpowder Empires and Maritime Domains 42  Holes in the Net 49  Chapter IV. 1750-1880: Imperialism, Industrialization, and Free Trade 57  Early World Politics and Atlantic Revolutions 57  The Far-reaching Impact of the Industrial Revolution 62  Empires and Nation-States 69  The Emergence of a World Economy 76  Chapter V. 1880-1945: Global Capitalism and Global Crises 81  The Experience of Globality, Global Economy, and World Politics at the Turn of the Century 81  Imperialism and World War 90  1918-1945: Global Crises and Conflicts 99  The \"American Century\" 107  Chapter VI. 1945 to the Mid-1970s: Globalization Split in Two 113  Political Spaces: Power Blocs, Nation-States, and Transnational Movements 113  The Institutions of the Global Economy 121  Sociocultural Globalization? 130  Chapter VII. Conclusion 141  A New Millennium 141  On the Road to a Global Age? 145  Globalization: Putting the Concept into Perspective 150  Notes 153  Recommended Literature 171  Index 181","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403753595223,"sku":"9780691133959","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691133959.jpg?v=1730484447","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/globalization-9780691133959","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}