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Transnational Currents in a Shrinking World: 1870-1945
Emily S. Rosenberg
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Description for Transnational Currents in a Shrinking World: 1870-1945
Paperback. Emily Rosenberg examines the social and cultural networks that emerged from global exchanges between 1870 and 1945. Transnational connections were being formed many decades before "globalization" became a commonplace term in economic and political discourse, and these currents underscore the fluidity of spatial and personal identifications. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; HBLL; HBLW; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
Transnational Currents in a Shrinking World examines the wide variety of social and cultural networks that emerged from the global exchanges of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emily Rosenberg shows how transnational connections were being formed many decades before globalization became a commonplace term in economic and political discourse. Suggesting crisscrossing flows of power, currents provide an especially apt metaphor for transnational exchanges in the age of the telegraph and incandescent light bulb. Rosenberg traces the internationalizing currents that impelled a desire to create global rule-setting institutions, from the Universal Postal Union to ... Read more
Transnational Currents in a Shrinking World examines the wide variety of social and cultural networks that emerged from the global exchanges of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emily Rosenberg shows how transnational connections were being formed many decades before globalization became a commonplace term in economic and political discourse. Suggesting crisscrossing flows of power, currents provide an especially apt metaphor for transnational exchanges in the age of the telegraph and incandescent light bulb. Rosenberg traces the internationalizing currents that impelled a desire to create global rule-setting institutions, from the Universal Postal Union to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Belknap Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
339g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674281332
SKU
V9780674281332
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About Emily S. Rosenberg
Emily S. Rosenberg is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.
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