As awareness of the process of globalization grows and the study of its effects becomes increasingly important to … 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 measured in terms of …

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Globalization and History -- 2 Convergence in History -- 3 … in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914--the first great globalization boom, which anticipated the …: Repeal of the Corn Laws -- 6 Globalization Backlash: Tariff Responses -- 7 Mass Migrations: Why They Moved -- 8 Mass …

When the Third World fell behind -- The first global century up to 1913 -- Biggest Third World terms of trade boom ever …? -- The economics of Third World growth engines and dutch diseases -- Measuring third world de-industrialization and Dutch … : Ottoman problems -- A Latin American de-industrialization illustration : Mexican exceptionalism -- Rising Third World …