Ebook: Globalization and global history

1. Globalizations, global histories and historical globalities / Barry K. Gills and William R. Thompson -- 2. Globalizing history and historicizing globalization / Jerry H. Bentley -- 3. The global animus / Roland Robertson and David Inglis -- 4. Civilizing processes and international societies / Andrew Linklater -- 5. Globalizations / David Wilkinson -- 6. The big collapse / Claudio Cioffi-Revilla -- 7. (Re)periphalization, (re)incorporation, frontiers and non-state societies / Thomas D. Hall -- 8. Growth/decline phases and semi-peripheral development in the ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian world-systems / Christopher Chase-Dunn ... [et al.] -- 9. Early Iron Age economic expansion and contraction revisited / Andre Gunder Frank and William R. Thompson -- 10. Dark ages / Sing C. Chew -- 11. Three steps in globalization / Joachim Karl Rennstitch -- 12. Globalization began in 1571 / Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giráldez -- 13. Colonies in a globalizing economy, 1815-1948 / Patrick Karl O'Brien