people, using a network science approach to obtain differing views of globalization and to clarify the facts on isolation of … communities. Globalization reduces international economic inequality, i.e., it allows emerging countries to catch up while it … be resolved? At the same time, the reduction of biocultural diversity caused by globalization needs to be avoided. What …

1 Introduction -- 2 Early Globalization: Arguments and Evidence -- 3 Harbingers of Modernity: an Iberian perspective … -- 4 Silver production, prices and globalization in the eighteenth century -- 5 The Austrian mining industry and the … Iberian globalization -- 6 The Manila Galleon and the Age of Trade -- 7 The reception of Asian textiles in Portugal and Brazil …