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a short history of the modern world

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An edition of Globalization (2010)

Globalization

a short history of the modern world

"International politics began with the emergence of the first organized states thousands of years ago. Global politics is more recent--it appeared about five centuries ago when the European powers began to mesh the world's far corners together through conquest and trade. Today we live on a planet characterized by globalization or the ever more complex economic, cultural, technological, and environmental interdependence among all people everywhere. Until recently globalization's development was slow. Although countries increasingly traded, allied, and negotiated with each other, the divisions among them far outweighed the ties, and nations often settled their conflicts with war or the threat of war. However, since 1945, despite or more likely because of the "Cold War," globalization has developed rapidly and profoundly. Today all humans are formally tied to all others through their country's membership in the United Nations and numerous other international organizations, along with the immediate benefits of global trade, telecommunications, travel, and the internet. Yet globalization has a dark side--it destroys as well as creates jobs, wealth, and lives, while every human lives under the shadow of potential nuclear and ecological extinction. How did humanity reach a stage of history so filled with such an array of prospects and perils? Globalization: A Short History of the Modern World explores that all powerful force for good and evil from the Renaissance through today and beyond"--

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Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
181

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Globalization: a short history of the modern world
2010, Palgrave Macmillan
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Published in
New York, NY

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
303.48/209
Library of Congress
JZ1318 .N47 2010, JZ2-6530JA81-JA84JZ1

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
181

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24580646M
Internet Archive
globalizationsho00nest
ISBN 13
9780230106918
LCCN
2010014445
OCLC/WorldCat
567165978

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