W. W. Norton & Company
Globalization in World History
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- A G Hopkins
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Paperback
- 9780393979428
- 8.18 X 5.62 X 0.67 inches
- 0.84 pounds
- Political Science > Globalization
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Virtually all of this discussion makes assumptions, and frequently explicit claims, about the novelty of globalization. According to one view, globalization is a new phenomenon that can be dated from the 1980s. A second view holds that globalization has a long history that can be traced to the nineteenth century, if not earlier. These are important claims, but until now they had not attracted significant critical attention from historians. This volume is the first by a team of historians to address these issues.
Globalization in World History has two distinctive features. First, it traces the history of globalization across nearly three centuries. Second, it emphasizes a feature that the current debate greatly underestimates: the fact that globalization has non-Western as well as Western origins. Globalization is much more than a new way to tell the all-too-familiar rise of the West story. The contributors bring their expertise to bear on themes that give prominence to China, South Asia, Africa, and the world of Islam, as well as to Europe and the United States; these themes span the last three centuries while also showing an awareness of more distant antecedents. The result is a coherent and thought-provoking collection of essays. Globalization will become a major theme of historical research during the next decade; this book will help set the new agenda.
Author Bio
Tony Hopkins is Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at Cambridge and Emeritus Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History at the University of Texas in Austin. He holds a PhD from the University of London and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Stirling and Birmingham.
He is Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge and an Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Professor Hopkins's main interests lie in the history of the non- Western world, economic history of Africa, and the history of European imperialism.
He has written extensively on African history, imperial history, and globalization. His publications include: An Economic History of West Africa (1973; 2019), British Imperialism written with P. J. Cain (1993; 3rd ed. 2016), Globalization in World History (2001), Global History: Interactions between the Universal and the Local (2006), American Empire: A Global History (2018), Africa, Empire and World Disorder: Historical Essays (2020) and numerous scholarly articles.
Research Interests
- Western expansion overseas;
- African and ‘Third World’ history;
- Historiography; globalization; development issues
Education
- St Paul’s School, London, 1953-57 University of London, B.A. (History, 1960);
- Ph.D. (1964): ‘An Economic History of Lagos, 1880-1914’
Source: The University of Texas at Austin Department of History
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