Jurgen Osterhammel, Winner of the 2017 Toynbee Prize, Toynbee Prize Foundation Jurgen Osterhammel, Winner of the 2012 Gerda Henkel Prize, of the Gerda Henkel Foundation "Jurgen Osterhammel and Niels P. Petersson argue that ... globalization has been long under way. While civilizations have always interacted, the stability and scale of western Europe's post-Columbian global networks of trade, migration, and cultural ... Read moreexchange differed qualitatively enough to count as the first stirrings of a globalization that continues to this day."
Choice "[Globalization] stands out in the proliferation of textbooks and surveys on world history and globalization. It is a concise and, especially noteworthy, a precise essay on the time and place of globalization... [T]his is a quick and intelligent little book."
Michael Geyer, H-Net "[Osterhammel and Petersson] have produced a short and extremely helpful introduction to the history of globalization... [The book] rightly tries to reach far beyond the more narrow confines of economic history ... [to] draw on migration history, the history of slavery and of empires, and ... international relations theory."
Harold James, International History Review "This brief book provides an easy-to-read, well-organized addition to the globalization debate that offers a cogent analysis of the macroprocess by elucidating the long and uneven global developments that have brought us to the current era."
Colin Rowan, Journal of World History "In this crisp account, two historians examine the long roots of globalization... Scholars of world history will gain a great deal from this lucid, jargon-free analysis of globalization that is in many ways a most welcomed update of William H. McNeill's The Global Condition."
The Historian "This excellent short book by German historians Jurgen Osterhammel and Niels P. Peteresson provides a fascinating, accessible sketch of the development of globalization. The authors bridge the gap between academic historians and general readers."
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