A Big History of Globalization The Emergence of a Global World System /

• Main Authors: Zinkina, Julia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Christian, David (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Grinin, Leonid (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Ilyin, Ilya (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Andreev, Alexey (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Aleshkovski, Ivan (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Shulgin, Sergey (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Korotayev, Andrey (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures,
• Subjects: World history.; Globalization.; World History, Global and Transnational History.

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, interco...