Globalization in Historical Perspective

As awareness of the process of globalization grows and the study of its effects becomes increasingly important to governments and businesses (as well as to a sizable opposition), the need for historical understanding also increases. Despite the importance of the topic, few attempts have been made to present a long-term economic analysis of the phenomenon, one that frames the issue by examining its place in the long history of international integration.This volume collects eleven papers doing exactly that and more. The first group of essays explores how the process of globalization can be measu