Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book
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The new edition of this accessible and wide-ranging book demonstrates the distinctive
insights that sociology has to bring to the study of globalization. Taking in the cultural …

Globalization is one of the most potent theoretical frameworks of the moment, for it provides
a means by which we can make sense of our socio-cultural connectivities, and the networks …

This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon—and one
driven solely by Western interests—by offering a compelling new perspective on global …

Language Myths and the History of English aims to deconstruct the myths that are
traditionally reproduced as factual accounts of the historical development of English. Using …

Este artículo se pregunta por los posibles límites de la historia local dentro del paradigma
de la historia global. A partir de criticar la ecuación que hace de la relación entre local y …

La idea según la cual las ciencias sociales habrían experimentado durante los últimos años
un verdadero" giro global" parece imponerse al punto tal que casi ni se discute. Pero¿ qué …

Among his generation of intellectuals, the eighteenth-century German philosopher Johann
Gottfried Herder is recognized both for his innovative philosophy of language and history …

Résumé L'article pose la question de savoir s' il ya profit à travailler sur l'histoire du domaine
social dans une perspective transnationale. Quatre faisceaux d'indices sont proposés …

Merchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving
forces of the First Opium War were the infamous opium smuggling trade, the defence of …