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 globalization begin, and what effects did …

Recent research in international economic history has opened up new lines of enquiry on
the origins of globalization, as well as its causes and consequences. Such findings have the …

This article reviews the ways in which historians and economists have applied the term
'globalization'to the early modern era. It distinguishes a soft and a hard definition, and goes …

'Global history'encompasses a new approach to historical writing which has emerged during
the past fifteen years. Debates over'globalization and paradigms such as the'great …

Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and
international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914—the first great …

The article surveys three economic history literatures that can speak to contemporary
challenges to globalization: the literature on the anti-globalization backlash of the nineteenth …

In recent historiography, it has been argued that the expansion of Europe between 1500 and
1800 created a 'system'in the Atlantic by which the economies of Europe, West Africa and …

This paper looks at the two waves of globalisation (roughly 1820-1914 and 1960-present)
focusing on key economic facts (trade investment, migration, and capital flows …

This paper documents the size and timing of the world inter-continental trade boom following
the great voyages in the 1490s of Columbus, da Gama and their followers. Indeed, a trade …

This paper situates globalisation in historical perspective to analyse its implications for
development. It sketches a picture of globalisation during the late nineteenth and twentieth …