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Empires and autonomy : moments in the history of globalization /
"Globalization is one of most significant developments of our time. But what distinguishes the present era from "golden" periods of empire building in past? Which elements of contemporary globalization and forms of autonomy are particularly novel and which are merely continuations of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Vancouver :
UBC Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Globalization and autonomy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Globalization is one of most significant developments of our time. But what distinguishes the present era from "golden" periods of empire building in past? Which elements of contemporary globalization and forms of autonomy are particularly novel and which are merely continuations of long-standing historical trends?" "To address these questions, Empires and Autonomy brings together a distinguished group of scholars who explore particular historical moments that involved either the establishment or protection of autonomy. These global encounters inevitably involved friction, and the contributors examine the dialectic between globalization and autonomy at moments that range in time from the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1720 to the meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986 that led to the end of the Cold War. By examining uniquely telling historical moments, the tightly focused, interdisciplinary essays show that globalization has been anything but systematic or complete."--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 379 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780774816014 0774816015 0774816007 9780774816007 077481599X 9780774815994 1282740512 9781282740518 9786612740510 6612740515 |
| ISSN: | 1913-7494 |