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• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• I. “Globalization”: Circumnavigating a Term
• A Diagnosis of the Present and a Term for a Historical Process
• The Core Concept and the Controversies
• II. The Dimensions of Globalization
• World System—Imperialism—Global History
• Networks and Interaction Spheres
• Historical Periods
• III. The Development and Establishment of Worldwide Connections Until 1750
• Long-distance Trade, Empires, Ecumenes
• Gunpowder Empires and Maritime Domains
• Holes in the Net
• IV. 1750–1880: Imperialism, Industrialization, and Free Trade
• Early World Politics and Atlantic Revolutions
• The Far-reaching Impact of the Industrial Revolution
• Empires and Nation-States
• The Emergence of a World Economy
• V. 1880–1945: Global Capitalism and Global Crises
• The Experience of Globality, Global Economy, and World Politics at the Turn of the Century
• Imperialism and World War
• Imperialism and World War
• The “American Century”
• VI. 1945 to the Mid-1970s: Globalization Split in Two
• Political Spaces: Power Blocs, Nation-States, and Transnational Movements
• The Institutions of the Global Economy
• Sociocultural Globalization?
• VII. Conclusion
• A New Millennium
• On the Road to a Global Age?
• Globalization: Putting the Concept into Perspective
• Notes
• Recommended Literature
• Index