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Globalization is the buzz-word of today. It envelops our world, but it also has long historical roots. This edited volume shows how the universal principles embodied in the process of globalization have interacted with diverse localities across the globe during the past two centuries.A. G. Hopkins presents a collection of fresh case studies that draw on different parts of the world - ranging from the Navajo reservation to Japan, via the Middle East and Vietnam - and cover various types of history: economic, political, social, cultural and intellectual. Hopkins''s Introduction places the new global history in the context of national history and world history; William H. McNeill, the pioneering historian of large-scale history, concludes the volume with a reflective Afterword. The historical record demonstrates that globalization has not only produced uniformity but has also reinforced difference. offers a coherent explanation of these diverging outcomes, and in doing so points towards a new type of world history. It is essential reading for anyone studying international history, world history, globalization, or world politics.>
Sommario
List of Illustrations and Maps
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Interactions Between the Universal and the Local; A.G.Hopkins
Value Added in the Production and Trade of Navajo Textiles: Local Culture and Global Demand; E.Bsumek
Universals of Yesteryear: Hegel's Modernity in an Age of Globalization; R.Hart
The Cosmopolitanism of National Economics: Friedrich List in a Japanese Mirror; M.Metzler
Internationalist Activism and Global Civil Society at the High Point of Nationalism: The Paradox of the Universal Races Congress (1911); T.Matysik
Talking Machine World: Selling the Local in the Global Music Industry, 1900-1920; K.Miller
Competing Forms of Globalization in the Middle East: From the Ottoman Empire to the Nation State, 1918-1967; G.D.Schad
Universal Claims, Local Uses: Reconceptualizing the Vietnam Conflict, 1945-1960; M.A.Lawrence
Globalization and the Mythology of the 'Nation State'; P.L.White
Afterword: World History and Globalization; W.H.McNeill
Notes
Contributors
Index.
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Antony G Hopkins
