This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World-the world’s first “global economy”-from a longue durée perspective. Spanning from antiquity to the nineteenth century, these essays move beyond the usual focus on...

Im Zeitalter der Globalisierung muss auch die Geschichte neue Wege gehen und über die Grenzen der jeweils eigenen Nation hinausblicken. Entsprechend bildet die neue Reihe Globalgeschichte ein Forum für Bücher, die Beziehungen zwischen verschiedenen Gesellschaften und Regionen sowie ihre...

"Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity's story has always been on a global scale, and this history deeply informs the present. In this book, Jeffrey D. Sachs,...

Into the twentieth century -- I: Last best years of the golden age, 1896-1914. Global capitalism triumphant -- Defenders of the global economy -- Success stories of the golden age -- Failures of development -- Problems of the global economy -- II: Things fall apart, 1914-1939. "All that is solid...