This revised edition includes: Updates to the whole study with appropriate recent references; New brief transition sections that focus attention on the Mongol period, debates over the role of the eighteenth century, and the partial retreat from globalization after World War I; A new final chapter that deals with the rise in attacks on globalization during the most recent decade, from populist objections to the implications of growing authoritarianism, raising the question of whether a new transition is taking shape around us today.
Through an interdisciplinary approach that links political, sociological, and historical perspectives, Stearns provides a comprehensive overview of globalization and the historical factors that have shaped it. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of world history, economic history, and political economy.
This updated and revised edition of The Handbook of Globalisation offers novel insights into the rapid changes our world is facing, and how best we can handle them. But it does so without focusing on mathematical techniques and models for their own sake.
Theory is taken seriously — so much so that the authors go to pains to understand the key aspects of theories in a way that will not put people off before they see how theories are useful to analyse issues.
The authors believe that theories are essential to better understand the world, thus the book includes a wealth of historic and current episodes and data to both see how theories can help interpret the world and also to judge their validity.
Economies today are very inter-connected; what happens in China matters pretty much everywhere; and what happens in one even small country in the euro zone has implications for the whole euro area and beyond, consequently Macroeconomics, 3rd Edition adopts a very international focus. All Rights Reserved. He has also edited encyclopedias of world and social history, and since has served as editor-in-chief of The Journal of Social History.
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Availability This title is out of print. Description With its brief, global rather than West-centered approach, World History in Brief, Seventh Edition, shows how different civilizations developed in a global context. With its compact size and streamlined narrative, this book offers a fascinating overview of global history and allows instructors to easily supplement their courses with supplemental readings.
Part Retrospectives: Following the final chapter in each part is a retrospective essay that summarizes the dominant cross-civilizational or cross-regional contacts and divisions that occurred during the era examined in the chapters that comprise the part. New to This Edition. The goal of this feature is to emphasize both shared concerns and the diversity of responses that developed among major societies, from early history to the present.
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