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Author:   Stephen Streeter ,  John Weaver ,  William D. Coleman
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9780774816007

ISBN 10:   0774816007
Pages:   394
Publication Date:   01 January 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  Adult education ,  General ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments 1 Introduction / Stephen M. Streeter, John C. Weaver, and William D. Coleman 2 Tibet and the Chinese World-Empire / Timothy Brook 3 Litigating for Freedom in the British Empire, 1815-22: The Universal and Local in Tension / John C. Weaver 4 Ottoman Military and Social Transformations, 1826-28: Engagement and Resistance in a Moment of Global Imperialism / Virginia Aksani 5 Wired Religion: Spiritualism and Telegraphic Globalization in the Nineteenth Century / Jeremy Stolow 6 The Internationalization of Capital Then and Now: The Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Samir Saul 7 Global Industrial Enclaves: Company Towns and Export-Processing Zones Compared, 1900-2000 / Neil White 8 Freedom of the Ether or the Electromagnetic Commons? Globality, the Public Interest, and Multilateral Radio Negotiations in the 1920s / Daniel Gorman 9 A Globalization Moment: Franklin D. Roosevelt in Casablanca (January 1943) and the Decolonization/Development Impulse / Ronald W. Pruessen 10  Paradigm Shift and the Nuremberg Trials: The Emergence of the Individual as a Subject and Object of International Law / Adrian L. Jones 11 The US-Led Globalization Project in the Third World: The Struggle for Hearts and Minds in Guatemala and Vietnam in the 1960s / Stephen M. Streeter 12 A Globalizing Moment: The United Nations' Decades for Development and the North African Countries / Yassine Essid 13 Snakes That Are Rainbows: Indigenous Worldviews and the Constitution of Autonomy / Ravi De Costa 14 Globalization and US Empire: Moments in the Forging of the Global Turn / Ulf Hedetoft Notes; Works Cited; Contributors; Index

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Stephen M. Streeter is an associate professor in the Department of History, McMaster University. John C. Weaver is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History, McMaster University. William D. Coleman is CIGI Chair in Globalization and Public Policy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. Contributors: Virginia H. Aksan, Timothy Brook, Ravi de Costa, Yassine Essid, Daniel Gorman, Ulf Hedetoft, Adrian L. Jones, Ronald W. Pruessen, Samir Saul, Jeremy Stolow, and Neil White

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