The term globalisation has gained widespread popularity; yet most treatments are either descriptive and/or focused on changes in economic interconnectivity. This book brings together leading international experts from a range of disciplines to develop a long-term analysis to address the problems...

"Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a new perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures of economic opportunity developed around the people who settled across a wider British World...

Rewriting the epic of America / Ira Katznelson -- International engagement and American democracy: a comparative perspective / Aristide R. Zolberg -- International commitments and American political institutions in the nineteenth century / Robert O. Keohane -- Flexible capacity: the military and...