1st Edition

Globalization and Global History

Edited By Barry K. Gills, William R. Thompson Copyright 2006
    324 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    320 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Globalization 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.

    "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

    Biography

    Barry K. Gills is Reader in International Politics at the University of Newcastle, UK and Director of the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawaii, USA. William R. Thompson is Rogers Professor of Political Science at the University of Indiana, USA.