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A Big History of Globalization - The Emergence of a Global World System (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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A Big History of Globalization - The Emergence of a Global World System (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures
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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.
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