The Origins of Globalization
Subtitle: World Trade in the Making of the Global Economy, 1500-1800
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 20, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781108426992
Description: "The Origins of Globalization: For better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this process of globalisation begin, and what effects did it have on economies and societies? Pim de Zwart and Jan Luiten van Zanden argue that the networks of trade established after the voyages of Columbus and Da Gama of the late fifteenth century had transformative effects inaugurating the first era of globalisation. The global flows of ships, people, money and commodities between 1500 and 1800 were substantial, and the realignment of production and distribution resulting from these connections had important consequences for demography, well-being, state formation and the long-term economic growth prospects of the societies involved in the newly created global economy. Whether early globalisation had benign or malignant effects differed by region; but the world economy as we now know it originated in these changes in the early modern period"--
Notes: Source title: The Origins of Globalization: World Trade in the Making of the Global Economy, 1500-1800 (New Approaches to Economic and Social History)