World history involves the study of historical phenomena on a world or global scale. As such, it focuses on the following kinds of phenomena: the diffusion of technologies like the printing press and the telegraph; the spread of Western property rights; the growth of large religious communities; the transmission of plants, animals, bacteria, and germs across continents; and empires and imperialism. This kind of study leads naturally to global history, the study of the history of globalization itself. Understanding well globalization and autonomy requires familiarity with world and global history.
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Read ArticleThis volume synthesizes the recent outpouring of works on globalization and world history. Its essays depart from the existing literature by depicting forms of autonomy — individual, local, cultural, state, imperial — that were effaced, challenged, reconfigured, or even brought into being by emerging transcultural systems and empires.
This volume explores at least four parallel grand historical paths that collectively ushered in the historical rupture that we know as globalization and globality: the decline of European and Asian empires, the emergence of the American empire, technological and conceptual innovations that erode communities and local markets, and clusters of key ideas.
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