Today's world textile and garment trade is valued at a staggering $425 billion. We are told that under the pressure of … increasing globalisation, it is India and China that are the new world manufacturing powerhouses. However, this is not a new … Ottoman Empire switched from world producers to buyers of European cotton textiles, a position that they retained for over two …

"Westerners on both the left and right overwhelmingly equate globalization with Westernization and presume that the … inclusive thinking. It reveals the multicultural origins of globalization and the global economy, not so as to marginalise the …

"The Origins of Globalization: For better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic … or malignant effects differed by region; but the world economy as we now know it originated in these changes in the early …