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Globalization, Autonomy and World History: Imperialism, Capitalism and Technology

Stephen Streeter, John Weaver and William D. Coleman


Introduction

Stephen Streeter, John Weaver and William D. Coleman



Section 1: Emerging Global Structures

The Internationalization of Capital Then and Now: Comparing the Late 19th and 20th Centuries

Samir Saul


Globalization and US Empire: Moments in the Forging of the Global Turn

Ulf Hedetoft


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The Environment, Governance and Global Legitimacy

Steven Bernstein


Paradigm Shift and the Post-WWII Nuremberg Trials: The Emergence of the Individual as a Subject and Object of International Law

Adrian Jones


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Section 2: Global Management, Imperialism and Development

A Globalization Moment: Franklin D. Roosevelt in Casablanca (January 1943) and the Decolonization/"Development" Impulse

Ronald Pruessen


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A Globalizing Moment: The "UNO Decades for Development" and North African Countries

Yassine Essid


Globalization, Autonomy and the Third World: The Struggle for Hearts and Minds in Guatemala and Vietnam in the 1960s

Stephen Streeter


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Section 3: Technological Change, Globalization and Autonomy

Freedom of the Ether or the Electromagnetic Commons? Globality, the Public Interest and the Multilateral Radio Negotiations of the 1920s and 1930s

Daniel Gorman


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Global Cultural Production and Autonomy of Local Music Cultures

Paul Théberge


Company Towns, Resource Development and Autonomy

Neil White



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