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Macrohistorical Approach
This chapter outlines a methodological approach, on the basis of which the report further analyzes the processes that have been taking place in the...
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A Big History of Globalization The Emergence of a Global World System
This book presents the history of globalization as a network-based story in the context of Big History. Departing from the traditional historic...
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The Early Modern Period: Emerging Global Processes and Institutions
The early modern period witnessed the emergence of a number of processes and institutions that were to acquire global scale and have a significant...
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Introduction: Globalization Context
This chapter centers on two separate yet interrelated questions: (1) How old is the global world? (2) How old is globalization? To answer the first...
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Global Sociocultural Transformations of the Nineteenth Century
The nineteenth century witnessed some profound transformations in the sociocultural sphere that started in the World System core countries and later...
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Global Sociopolitical Transformations of the Nineteenth Century
In the previous chapter we noted that globalization in the nineteenth century heavily contributed to the global spread of European modernity. In this...
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Proto-modern and Early Modern Globalization: How Was The Global World Born?
This chapter is divided into two parts. First, we will view the structure and dynamics of the Afro-Eurasian world-system in the centuries preceding...
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The First “Golden Age” of Globalization (1870–1914)
The period from 1870 to the beginning of the First World War is commonly referred to as the first “golden age” of globalization. The most important...
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Conclusion: The Big History of Globalization Told in Ten Pages
Numerous approaches to studying globalization co-exist in global research of the phenomenon, which is perfectly understandable, as the multitude of...
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Archaic Globalization: The Birth of the World-System
This chapter examines several consecutive periods of the earliest history of globalization. In the ninth to seventh millennia bce, an Afro-Eurasian...
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Global Dynamics 1–1800 ce: Trends and Cycles
This chapter views the trend and cyclic components of the major absolute and relative indicators of world dynamics. We show that the second...
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Introduction: Big History Context
This book on globalization sets its theme within the framework of deep time—without hesitation and on the largest possible scales. It asks, in...
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Modern Globalization: Global Technological and Economic Transformations in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
The nineteenth century was a major watershed in the Big History storyline in general and in the history of globalization in particular. This...
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Early Modern Globalization and World Dynamics: Global Growth, Global Crisis, and Global Divergence
Various parts of the early modern world developed in remarkable synchrony. For most regions, the sixteenth century was marked by a significant...