Globalization

A Reader
Herausgeber: Lemert, Charles; Chaffee, Daniel; Elliott, Anthony

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Produktbeschreibung

Globalization offers a unique compilation of the major statements - drawn from a variety of historical periods, political contexts, intellectual perspectives and academic disciplines - on the globalization debate. Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert expertly guide the reader through the complex terrain of globalization - its engaging histories, transnational economies, multiple cultures and cosmopolitan politics. There is no other book that manages to wrap together the historical and contemporary, the academic and public, debates as does Globalization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 203mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1170g
• ISBN-13: 9780415464772
• ISBN-10: 0415464773
• Artikelnr.: 28955195

Autorenporträt

Charles Lemert is the Andrus Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University, USA and Visiting Research Professor at Flinders University, Australia. Anthony Elliott is Professor of Sociology at Flinders University, Australia and Visiting Research Professor at Open University, UK. Daniel Chaffee is Associate Lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University, Australia. Eric Hsu is a PhD candidate and Associate Lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Globalization: Fluid Concept, Multiple Reality Part 1: The
Age of Empires, 3000BCE - 1500 CE The Imperial Disposition & Civilizational
Empires 1.1 Egypt, The Narmer Palette (c. 3100 BCE) 1.2 Persia:
Zarathustra, Avesta (9th/10th Centuries BCE) 1.3 Vedic Civilization India:
Rig Veda (10th Century BCE) 1.4 Mesopotamia: The Epic of Gilgamesh (1200
BCE/ 700 BCE) 1.5 Ancient Israel: The Yahwist Myth of Creation and Fall
(10th Century BCE) 1.6 China: Zhou Dynasty: Mencius on the Mandate of
Heaven (c. 370 BCE - c. 290 BCE) 1.7 Arabia: Mohammad, Qu'ran & The Treaty
of Hudabiyya 1.8 The Americas: The Abenaki Creation Story (3,000 BCE) 1.9
Greece: Homer, Iliad (725-675 BCE) Imperial Systems, Conflict, and
Expansion 1.10 Egypt: Ramses II, The Battle of Kadesh (c. 1273 BCE) 1.11
Babylonia: Achaemenid Empire (550 - 330 BCE), Cyrus the Great 1.12 The
Peloponnesian War (431 - 404 BCE): Thucydides 1.13 Alexander the Great of
Macedonia: Plutarch 1.14 Post-Alexandrine Empires: Ptolemy I, The Rosetta
Stone (196 BCE) 1.15 India: The Myuran Empire, Edicts of Ashoka 1.16 Rome,
the Republic: Cicero (106 BCE - 43 BCE), de Re Publica 1.17 Rome, the
Empire: Augustus, Deeds of Augustus (Res Gestae Divi Augusti) 1.19 Korea:
Samguk Sagi: Unified Silla and the T'ang Dynasty 1.20 China: Fall of the
Qin and the rise of the Han dynasty Instability and Decline in Global
Empires 1.21 The Americas: Mayan Civilization, The Dresden Codex 1.22
Africa: Ibn Hawkal on the empires of Ghana and Mali 1.23 Japan: the Kojiki
to the Edo Period 1.24 Americas: The Incas, Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui (1438 -
1471) 1.25 Rome, the decline: Constantine & Augustine of Hippo 1.26
Mississippian Trading Zone: Cahokia Mounds (c. 1000 - 1100) 1.27 The
Ottomans: Breach to the West 1.28 Meso-America: The Conquest of New Spain
Part 2: The Modern World System & Industrial Capitalism, 1500 - 1914 The
European Voyages of Exploration and Discovery in the 16th Century 2.1
European World Economy 2.2 The Scandinavian Probes to North America 2.3 The
Iberian Discoveries of the Americans 2.4 The English Settlements in North
America 2.5 The Iberian Circumnavigation: Ferdinand Magellan The Interstate
System & Colonization: After 1648 2.6 The Peace of Westphalia 2.7 America
in the European Imagination 2.8 Early Trade Routes to the East: Marco Polo
& the Silk Road 2.9 The Colony as the Gulag of Undesirables: Australia 2.10
The Colony as Wholly Owned Subsidiary: Leopold and the Belgian Congo 2.11
Pax Britannica & the Colonization of Civil Virtues The New Sciences of
Global Imagination 2.12 The New Psychology of the Migrating Self: Descartes
2.15 Print & Literacy: Gutenberg & Luther 2.14 Longitudinal Reckoning 2.16
The War Machine: Land & Sea 2.17 Weights & Measures 2.18 Steam &
Thermodynamics: Robert Boyle & James Watt 2.19 Steel & Heavy Industry:
Bessemer 2.20 On the Origin of Species: Darwin Part 3: The Short Twentieth
Century: Global Uncertainty and Restructuring Revival of Empire, Global
Wars, & Europe's Decline: 1914-1945 3.1 Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
3.2 The Great War of 1914 & Europe's Lost Imperium 3.3 End of Dynasty &
Nationalism in China, 1911 3.4 Versailles & the 30 Years war with Germany
3.5 Lenin and the Soviet Union, 1917 3.6 Japan and the Cult of the Emperor
3.7 National Socialism in Germany 3.8 The American Century, 1941 The Cold
War as a Struggle for Global Control: 1946-1975 3.9 The Iron Curtain 3.10
The American Threat & Stalinism Ideology 3.11 The Soviet Threat & the
Principle of Deterrence 3.12 Great Britain & Suez Crisis 3.13 Sponsored
Resistance to Hegemonic Intrusions: Ho Chi Min Decolonizing Struggles: 1947
to 1962 3.15 Negritude and Violence 3.16 The Expulsion of the British and
Partition of South Asia 3.17 The Leninist State with Buddhist Pretension:
Mao's Defeat of Nationalism 3.18 Congo: Patrice Lumumba 3.19 Cuba as the
Thorn in the Flesh of the American Hegemony Global Forces Crash the Gates
in the Global Centers: 1963 to 1991/2001 3.21 Asian influences on the
American Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King, "My Trip to the Land of
Gandhi", Malcolm X, "The Black Muslim Movement" 3.22 The Velvet Revolution
Vaclav Havel, " 3.23 The Post-Colonial Nightmare in Africa: Zaire 3.24
Tiananmen Square: 1989 3.25 Perestroika & Glasnost: Gorbachev / 1989-91
3.26 The World Social Forum: Porto Alegre Part 4: The Great Globalization
Debate Globalists 4.1 Kenichi Ohmae 4.2 Manuel Castells 4.3 Peter Dicken
4.4 Ulf Hannerz 4.5 Thomas Friedman Anti-Globalists 4.6 Paul Hirst and
Grahame Thompson 4.7 Naomi Klein 4.8 Robert Gilpin 4.9 R.J. Barry Jones
4.10 Alan M. Rugman and Richard Hodgetts Transformationalists 4.11 Anthony
Giddens 4.12 David Held and Anthony McGrew 4.13 Project for the New
American Century 4.14 Aihwa Ong 4.15 Al Gore 4.16 Ulrich Beck
Post-Globalists 4.17 Zygmunt Bauman 4.18 Arjun Appadurai 4.19 Fredric
Jameson 4.20 Justin Rosenberg Part 5: Globalization Since 2001-Present
9/11 and its Aftermath 5.1 Osama bin Laden 5.2 Slavoj Zizek 5.3 Joseph S.
Nye, Jr. 5.4 Noam Chomsky Global Governance 5.5 The Commission on Global
Governance 5.6 James N. Rosenau 5.7 David Held 5.8 G. John Ikenberry 5.8.5
Danilo Zolo Cultural Globalization, Global Culture 5.10 John Tomlinson 5.11
Tyler Cowen 5.12 Stuart Hall 5.13 Albert Paolini 5.14 Roland Robertson
Globalizing Regions 5.15 Francis Fukayama 5.16 Samuel Huntington 5.17
Stanley Hoffman 5.20 Peter Kwong and Dusanka Miscevic 5.21 Doug Guthrie
5.22 Timothy Garton-Ash 5.23. Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck Part 6:
Global Futures: Time and Tense Post-Contemporary Globalisms 6.1 Gilles
Deleuze and Felix Guatari 6.2 Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri 6.3 Saskia
Sassen 6.4 John Urry Global Civil Society in the Cosmopolitan Age 6.5
Amartya Sen 6.6 John Keane 6.7 Mary Kaldor 6.8 Kwame Anthony Appiah 6.10
Pheng Cheah Globalization and Personal Life: Intimate Globalism 6.11 Julia
Kristeva 6.12 Dennis Altman 6.13 Nikos Papastergiadis 6.14 Jean-Luc Nancy
6.15 Judith Butler Information Technology & Assemblages 6.16 Paul Virilio
6.17 Giorgio Agamben 6.18 Manuel DeLanda 6.19 Achille Mbembe 6.20
AbdouMaliq Simone An Inconclusive Word, After the Crash of 2009