First, the socio-economic structural context that falls under the controversial category of Globalization and, second, the post-modern political structural context that is built on Robert Cooper's threefold analysis (Pre-modern, Modern and Post-modern) of today's world [Cooper, R: 1997, 1999]....
Urban living is the keystone of modern human ecology. Cities have multiplied and expanded rapidly worldwide over the past two centuries. Cities are sources... Anthony J. McMichael - 《Bulletin of the World Health Organization》 被引量: 594发表: 2000年 China's recent urban development in the...
As some researchers are still inclined to underestimate the scale of those links in the pre-Industrial era, it appears necessary to provide additional empiri- cal support for our statement. It also turns necessary to apply a special method- ology (which necessitated the use of the world-system...
Globalizing the Nation-Making Process: Modern Sport in World History Contemporary analysts frequently assert that modern sport is a globalizing instrument with the potential for linking world societies together in a new tran... Dyreson,Mark - 《International Journal of the History of Sport》 被引量...
Pre-World War I.European countries made significant investments overseas in the decades before World War I. The period from 1870 to 1914 is called the golden age of globalization. Post-World War II.The United States led the effort to create a global economic system with a set of broadly acc...
Trade, of course, is as old as humanity. Anthropologists have traced enormous trade routes that Cro-Magnon man used all across Europe before the dawn of history. Trade over land and by ship became common, the principal trade goods being agricultural products like olives and grains. In pre-ind...
ment of the western centrality and then they started their of the western centrality and then they started their invasions in the whole world .invasions in the whole world .Imperialism, 1914Stage 2Stage 2 The first great wave of the globalizationThe first great wave of the globalizationThe pre...
the enlightenment thinkers had forecasted a uniformized and borderless world in the sphere of values. In the 19thcentury, cultural industries depended on technical innovations during the first and second industrial revolutions such as, printing in 1860, and electricity and cinema in 1890. ...
The text interprets the issue of a civilization in the framework of the globalization processes. Namely, it has been taking form of "a new totality" of inconstant and conflictive character, in which many "old", big and small issues of sociological views are being put forward. This also lead...
European civilization’s five hundred year period of technological progress and geographical expansion has often been called unique, unparalleled in human history, completely different from anything in pre-European or non-European societies. This is not quite true however. Chinese civilization did undergo...