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xviii, 284 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm |
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World-systems evolution and global futures, 2522-0985
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World-systems evolution and global futures
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Includes bibliographical references |
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"This book presents the history of globalization as a network-based story in the context of Big History. Departing from the traditional historic discourse, in which communities, cities, and states serve as the main units of analysis, the authors instead trace the historical emergence, growth, interconnection, and merging of various types of networks that have gradually encompassed the globe. They also focus on the development of certain ideas, processes, institutions, and phenomena that spread through those networks to become truly global. The book specifies five macro-periods in the history of globalization and comprehensively covers the first four, from roughly the 9th-7th millennia BC to World War I. For each period, it identifies the most important network-related developments that facilitated (or even spurred on) such transitions and had the greatest impacts on the history of globalization. By analyzing the world system's transition to new levels of complexity and connectivity, the book provides valuable insights into the course of Big History and the evolution of human societies"-- Publisher's website |
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Introduction : big history context -- Introduction : globalization context -- Archaic globalization : the birth of the world-system -- Global dynamics 1-1800 CE : trends and cycles -- Proto-modern and early modern globalization : how was the global world born? -- Early modern globalization and world dynamics : global growth, global crisis, and global divergence -- The early modern period : emerging global processes and institutions -- Modern globalization : global technology and economic transformations in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Global sociopolitical transformation of the nineteenth century -- Global sociocultural transformations of the nineteenth century -- The first "golden age" of globalization (1870-1914) -- Conclusion : the big history of globalization told in ten pages -- Appendix A: ISO codes for country names -- Appendix B: Visualization of global trade network, 1896-1906 -- Appendix C: Visualization of immigration flows for the largest migration recipients, late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries |
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Globalization -- History
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System theory
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| Alt Author |
Christian, David, 1946- author
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Grinin, Leonid, author
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Ilʹin, I. V. (Ilʹi︠a︡ Vi︠a︡cheslavovich), 1973- author
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Andreev, Alexey, author
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Aleshkovskiĭ, I. A. (Ivan Andreevich), author
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Shulgin, Sergey, author
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Korotaev, A. V., author
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