This article reviews the ways in which historians and economists have applied the term
'globalization'to the early modern era. It distinguishes a soft and a hard definition, and goes …

The first volume provides a comprehensive view of the growth and levels of world population
since the year 1000, when rich countries of today were poorer than Asia and Africa. It is a …

This book was written in the belief that you cannot make sense of today's world economy, or
indeed of the world more generally, without understanding the history that produced it …

When first published in 2009, Nature's Matrix set out a radical new approach to the
conservation of biodiversity. This new edition pushes the frontier of the …

Some world historians attach globalisation 'big bang'significance to 1492 and 1498. Such
scholars are on the side of Adam Smith who believed that these were the two most important …

In this stimulating and authoritative overview, Michael Pearson reverses the traditional angle
of maritime history and looks from the sea to its shores-its impact on the land through trade …

The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading
empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But …

India is a land of enormous diversity. Cross-cultural influences are everywhere in evidence,
in the food people eat, the clothes they wear, and in the places they worship. This was ever …

7. De Certeau, The Writing of History, xxv–xxvi. 8. Greenblatt sums up this image when he
writes that the “Europeans who ventured to the New World in the first decades after …

This paper provides an introduction to what is known about trends in international
commodity market integration during the second half of the second millennium. Throughout …