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Empires and Autonomy : Moments in the History of Globalization.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Globalization and Autonomy SeriesPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (394 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774816014
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Empires and AutonomyDDC classification:
  • 303.48/209
LOC classification:
  • JZ1318 -- .E47 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Tibet and the Chinese World-Empire -- 3 Litigating for Freedom in the British Empire, 1815-22: The Universal and Local in Tension -- 4 Ottoman Military and Social Transformations, 1826-28: Engagement and Resistance in a Moment of Global Imperialism -- 5 Wired Religion: Spiritualism and Telegraphic Globalization in the Nineteenth Century -- 6 The Internationalization of Capital: The Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 7 Global Industrial Enclaves: Company Towns and Export- Processing Zones Compared, 1900-2000 -- 8 Freedom of the Ether or the Electromagnetic Commons? Globality, the Public Interest, and Multilateral Radio Negotiations in the 1920s -- 9 A Globalization Moment: Franklin D. Roosevelt in Casablanca (January 1943) and the Decolonization/Development Impulse -- 10 Paradigm Shift and the Nuremberg Trials: The Emergence of the Individual as a Subject and Object of International Law -- 11 The US-Led Globalization Project in the Third World: The Struggle for Hearts and Minds in Guatemala and Vietnam in the 1960s -- 12 A Globalizing Moment: The United Nations' Decades for Development and the North African Countries -- 13 Snakes That Are Rainbows: Indigenous Worldviews and the Constitution of Autonomy -- 14 Globalization and US Empire: Moments in the Forging of the Global Turn -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: This collaborative study explores moments in the history of globalization and autonomy to provide insights into changes overtaking the contemporary world.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Tibet and the Chinese World-Empire -- 3 Litigating for Freedom in the British Empire, 1815-22: The Universal and Local in Tension -- 4 Ottoman Military and Social Transformations, 1826-28: Engagement and Resistance in a Moment of Global Imperialism -- 5 Wired Religion: Spiritualism and Telegraphic Globalization in the Nineteenth Century -- 6 The Internationalization of Capital: The Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 7 Global Industrial Enclaves: Company Towns and Export- Processing Zones Compared, 1900-2000 -- 8 Freedom of the Ether or the Electromagnetic Commons? Globality, the Public Interest, and Multilateral Radio Negotiations in the 1920s -- 9 A Globalization Moment: Franklin D. Roosevelt in Casablanca (January 1943) and the Decolonization/Development Impulse -- 10 Paradigm Shift and the Nuremberg Trials: The Emergence of the Individual as a Subject and Object of International Law -- 11 The US-Led Globalization Project in the Third World: The Struggle for Hearts and Minds in Guatemala and Vietnam in the 1960s -- 12 A Globalizing Moment: The United Nations' Decades for Development and the North African Countries -- 13 Snakes That Are Rainbows: Indigenous Worldviews and the Constitution of Autonomy -- 14 Globalization and US Empire: Moments in the Forging of the Global Turn -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This collaborative study explores moments in the history of globalization and autonomy to provide insights into changes overtaking the contemporary world.

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