The new global history instead builds on examples laid by such pioneering scholars as Robin Blackburn, Alfred W. Crosby, Philip D. Curtin, David Brion Davis, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Eric Foner, ...

The History of Globalization . Globalization is not a new concept. Traders traveled vast distances in ancient times to buy commodities that were rare and expensive for sale in their homelands.

Homecoming gives readers a globalization history lesson. The neoliberals of the 1930s wanted to connect the world to buffer populism. At the time, populism was seen primarily as a communist revolt ...

T he Silk Road was the first great globalization scheme. From 130 B.C. to 1453 A.D., ideas, goods, cultures, and religions flowed between this overland trade route connecting the Far East, China ...

Dr. Zahra is a professor of history at the University of Chicago and has written extensively about globalization’s first collapse. April 5, 2025 Before World War I, globalization was at a high ...

A history of globalization on horseback Horses once drove global trade and power struggles, similar to today's semiconductors. It’s easy to forget that not too long ago, ...