A Big History of Globalization - The Emergence of a Global World System (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures
Release date:	April 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Julia Zinkina • David Christian • Leonid Grinin • Ilya Ilyin • Alexey Andreev • Ivan Aleshkovski • Sergey Shulgin • Andrey Korotayev
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	284
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-005706-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > History > World history > General
LSN:	3-03-005706-2
Barcode:	9783030057060

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