{"product_id":"global-history-a-short-overview-paperback-softback-9780745628066","title":"Global History; A Short Overview (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745628066","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGlobal History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Short Overview\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNoel Cowen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745628066, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 August 2001\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.299 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This great little book is well-written, erudite and provides a sweeping historical survey which anyone with an interest in world history will find a very valuable introduction.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003cb\u003eProfessor Anthony McGrew,\u003c\/b\u003e Politics Department, Southampton University \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a good contribution to theories of globalization, bringing an important historical dimension to approaches that are often ahistorical. The additional focus of civilizations rather than nation-states is particularly interesting.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003cb\u003eGerard Delanty,\u003c\/b\u003e University of Liverpool, Network\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Noel Cowen's brave and brief text consciously imitates and combines the broadest patterns suggested by McNeill, Wallerstein and Braudel. His subject is not humanity but 'civilizations' that developed significant surpluses beyond subsistence...Cowen predicts an impending victory for financial imperialism, which has already converted most of the world's elites into its gospel of economic growth and higher living standards. If the human community can be provided with a unifying history, it will not likely be built over the sad skeleton of the history of tyrannies that Cowen's conscientious account so clearly exposes.\" (\u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of History,\u003c\/i\u003e December 2004)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis short book offers a clear and engaging introduction to the history of humankind, from the earliest movements of people to the contemporary epoch of globalization. Cowen traces this complex history in a manner which offers both a compelling narrative and an analytical and comparative treatment. Drawing on a new perspective on global history, he traces the intersection of change in economics, politics and human beliefs, examining the formation, enlargement and limits of human societies. \u003ci\u003eGlobal History\u003c\/i\u003e shows how much of human history encompasses three intersecting forces - trading networks, expanding political empires and crusading creeds.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbandoning the limits of a Eurocentric view of the world, the book offers a number of fresh insights. Its periodization embraces movement across continents and across the millennia. The indigenous American civilizations are included, for instance. The book also ranges over the early civilizations of China and Europe as well as the Russian and Islamic worlds. Modern American and Japanese civilizations are, in addition, a focus for attention. The author examines national and regional histories in relation to wider themes, sequences and global tendencies. In conclusion, he seeks to address the question of the extent to which a global society is beginning to crystallize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Classical Era.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Primary Concern.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Global Odyssey: Searching for Subsistence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Civilized Centres: Settlements Become Permanent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Rulers and Myths; Preconditions of Stability.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Political Prospect.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Hostile Encounters: The Threat from Outside:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Communication Network: Paths to Co-existence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Global Response: The Spreading of the Empires.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The Religious Factor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Creeds of Empire: Conformity and Allegiance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Crossing Frontiers: Faiths and Universalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Division and Decline: Propaganda for Salvation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Classical to Modern.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Modern Era.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: New Beginnings.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Movements of Peoples: Nomads and New Settlers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Economic Breakthrough: New Bases of Subsistence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Church and State: Twin Pillars of Stability.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Wider Identities.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Centuries of Empire: Global Impulse Renewed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Tools of Empire: Technology of Expansion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Creeds of Empire: Ideologies on the Move.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: Global Tendencies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. The World Economy: From Crisis to Growth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Hostile Encounters: Civilizations at War.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Communication Network: Search for Co-existence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52173730021656,"sku":"9780745628066","price":16.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745628066.jpg?v=1781168877","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/global-history-a-short-overview-paperback-softback-9780745628066","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}