globalization

Posted: December 10th, 2013

Write a well-organized, well-documented, well-written essay of approximately six double- spaced pages (standard font, margins, with longer quotations single-spaced and indented) on the following question. Include as many details as you can, keeping in mind that broad concepts will provide the foundation of your answer.

1- Felipe Fernández Armesto, The World: A History, Vol. II (Penguin, 2011) from chapter 15-30
2- Peter Stearns (et al.),Documents in World History, Vol. II, 6hEd. (Pearson, 2012)
3- David Courtwright, Forces of Habit: Drugsand the Making of the Modern World (Harvard, 2001)

. Either parenthetical or footnote references to these sources will be fine. (Note: Do not use the Internet. This is an exercise in the use and application solely of the materials referenced above, so you do not have to use the Library, either.)

What is “globalization”? Too often this term is defined solely with regard to today’s markets. This course, on the other hand, has endeavored to highlight various integrative encounters over the past half-millennium. With that in mind, how would you define it? What three phenomena (taken from different centuries) have played the most important roles in bringing the world closer together over the past 600 years? Provide detailed illustrations for each, emphasizing how exactly each phenomenon (e.g., idea, ambition, technology, trade item, etc.) has “globalized” the world. Finally, do you view globalization in a negative or a positive light? Why?