What do we mean by globalization? Which are the main features of globalization? And are these historically contingent? When did globalization begin? Can we pinpoint a specific date? Can we see different phases of globalization in the last 250 years? Are they characterised by different attributes? Is globalisation an
intensification of specific features at a global level (ex. communication, transnationality, etc)? Or does it entail the birth of new forms of connectivity? And why do so many social scientists insist that globalization is as recent as the 1970s?

Readings

Core:

Michael Lang, “Globalization and Its History,” Journal of Modern History, 78/4 (2006), pp. 899-931.

David Harvey, “Globalization in Question,” Rethinking Marxism, 8/4 (1995), pp. 1-17.

C.A. Bayly, ‘“Archaic” and A-Modern Globalization in the Eurasian and African Arena, c. 1750-1850', in A.G. Hopkins, ed., Globalization in World History (2002).

Dilip K. Das, “Globalisation: Past and Present,” Economic Affairs, 30/1 (2010), pp. 66-70.

Niall Ferguson, “Sinking Globalization,” Foreign Affairs, 84/2 (2005), pp. 64-77.

Further:

Richard Baldwin, and Philippe Martin, “Two Waves of Globalization: Superficial Similarities, Fundamental Differences,” in H. Siebert, ed., Globalization and Labor (Tubingen: Mohr, 1999), pp. 3-58; also in NBER Working Paper No. 6904, January 1999.

Jagdish Bhagwati, In Defense of Globalization (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), ch 1.HY 100.B4

Michael D. Bordo, Barry Eichengreen, Douglas A. Irwin, "Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization a Hundred Years Ago?" NBER Working Paper 7195 (1999).*

C. A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004). D 299.B2

Jerry Bentley, “Globalizing History and Historicizing Globalization”, Globalizations, 1/1 (2004), pp. 68-81.

Frederick Cooper, “What is the Concept of Globalization Good for? An African Historian's Perspective,” African Affairs, 100/2 (2001), pp. 189-213.*

Geoff Eley, “Historicizing the Global, Politicizing Capital: Giving the Present a Name,” History Workshop Journal, 63 (2007), pp. 154-188.*

Michael Geyer and Charles Bright, “World History in a Global Age,” American Historical Review, 100/4 (1995), pp. 1034-60.

Charles S. Maier, “Consigning the Twentieth Century to History: Alternative Narratives for the Modern Era,” American Historical Review, 105 /4 (2000), pp. 807-831. *

Bruce Mazlish, “Comparing Global History to World History,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 28/3 (1998), pp. 385-395.

Bruce Mazlish, The New Global History (New York, 2006), ch. 1 “Globalization without End: A Framing”.

Adam McKeown, "Periodizing Globalization", History Workshop Journal, 63 (2008), pp. 218-229.*

Branko Milanovic, “The Two Faces of Globalization: Against Globalization as We Know It,” World Development; 31/4 (2003), pp. 667-683.*

David Northrup, “Globalization and the Great Convergence: Rethinking World History in the Long Term,” Journal of World History, 16/3 (2005), pp. 249-267. *

Robbie Robertson, The Three Waves of Globalization: A History of Developing Consciousness (2003).

Kevin O’Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson, “When Did Globalisation Begin?,” European Review of Economic History, 6/1 (2002), pp. 23-50. *

Kevin O’Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson, “Once More: When Did Globalisation Begin?,” European Review of Economic History, 8/1 (2004), pp. 109-117.*

Jeffrey G. Williamson, "Globalization, Convergence, and History,” Journal of Economic History 56 (1996), pp. 277-306.*