A. G. Hopkins

For years there has been debate whether globalization, the increasingly unified world, is a recent phenomenon. The term was apparently not coined until the late 1990s, referring to the global entanglement of economics and communication since the fall of the Iron Curtain. Since then, a whole library has been written about the intensity of globalization, its advantages and disadvantages, and also about its real starting point. It is striking that until recently mainly non-historians contributed to the debate. This bundle aims to rectify this. A dozen historians from the University of Cambridge, England, have contributed to this. As it goes, the quality of the articles is quite good, but the focus is very diverging. Personally I found the contributions of A.G. Hopkins and C.A. Bayly really excellent.
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