Empires and autonomy : moments in the history of globalization

Streeter, Stephen M. (Added Author). Weaver, John C. (Added Author). Coleman, William D. (William Donald), 1950- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780774815994
ISBN: 077481599X
ISBN: 9780774816007 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xi, 379 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 328-360) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Tibet and the Chinese World-Empire / Timothy Brook -- Litigating for Freedom in the British Empire, 1815-22 : The Universal and Local in Tension / John C. Weaver -- Ottoman Military and Social Transformations, 1826-28 : Engagement and Resistance in a Moment of Global Imperialism / Virginia H. Aksan -- Wired Religion : Spiritualism and Telegraphic Globalization in the Nineteenth Century / Jeremy Stolow -- The Internationalization of Capital : The Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Samir Saul -- Global Industrial Enclaves : Company Towns and Export-Processing Zones Compared, 1900-2000 / Neil White -- Freedom of the Ether or the Electromagnetic Commons? Globality, the Public Interest, and Multilateral Radio Negotiations in the 1920s / Daniel Gorman -- A Globalization Moment : Franklin D. Roosevelt in Casablanca (January 1943) and the Decolonization/Development Impulse / Ronald W. Pruessen -- Paradigm Shift and the Nuremberg Trials : The Emergence of the Individual as a Subject and object of International Law / Adrian L. Jones -- The US-Led Globalization Project in the Third World : The Struggle for Hearts and Minds in Guatemala and Vietnam in the 1960s / Stephen M. Streeter -- A Globalizing Moment : The United Nations' Decades for Development and the North African Countries / Yassine Essid -- Snakes That Are Rainbows : Indigenous Worldviews and the Constitution of Autonomy / Ravi de Costa -- Globalization and US Empire : Moments in the Forging of the Global Turn / Ulf Hedetoft.