Comparing Globalizations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Comparing Globalizations—Historical and World-Systems Approaches

   • Thomas D. Hall

   Pages 1-9

3. The Long View

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Continuities and Transformations in the Evolution of World-Systems

      • Christopher Chase-Dunn

      Pages 13-35

   3. Origins of Globalization in the Framework of the Afroeurasian World-System History

      • Leonid E. Grinin, Andrey V. Korotayev

      Pages 37-70

4. Historical Globalization. Approaches and Details

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Africa’s Place in Globalization: Africa, Eurasia, and Their Borderlands

      • Patrick Manning

      Pages 73-90

   3. The Southeast Asian Connection in the First Eurasian World Economy 200 BC AD 500

      • Sing C. Chew

      Pages 91-117

   4. Archaeology and the Study of Globalization in the Past

      • P. Nick Kardulias

      Pages 119-130

5. Living in a Globalized World

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. Occluding the Global: Analytic Bifurcation, Causal Scientism, and Alternatives in Historical Sociology

      • Julian Go

      Pages 133-146

   3. Nation, Region, and Globe: Alternative Definitions of Place in World History

      • Daniel Little

      Pages 147-163

   4. From the Alienation of Neoliberal Globalization to Transmodern Ways of Being: Epistemic Change and the Collapse of the Modern World-System

      • Glen D. Kuecker

      Pages 165-180

   5. Comparing Globalizations: Conclusions, Questions, Speculations

      • Thomas D. Hall

      Pages 181-184

This work explores essential debates on globalization and world-systems analysis. It begins with a review of theoretical insights from world-systems analysis and explains the evolution of its terminology. The book subsequently seeks to answer several important questions: When did globalization begin and what insights into contemporary globalization may be gained from older forms? How does globalization differ in different places, and how can different instances of globalization be compared? Who is affected by globalization, how are they affected, and how do these effects vary, if at all, over time and space?

As world-systems analysis and studies of globalization require interdisciplinary expertise, the contributing authors draw on many fields, including anthropology, economics, geography, philosophy, political science, sociology, and world history. The book’s overall goal is to facilitate the dialogue between approaches that, at times, seem to “talk at cross-purposes,” and toextend an invitation to scholars from many different areas to explore globalization.

• Social Evolution
• Comparative World-Sstems Analysis
• Globalization
• Afro-Eurasia
• Africa
• South-East Asia
• Historical Sociology

• Department of Sociology and Anthropology, DePauw University, Greencastle, USA

  Thomas D. Hall

Thomas D. Hall is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana. He holds a BA in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley, a MA in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Washington, Seatke. His interests include indigenous peoples, ethnicity, comparative frontiers, world-systems analysis and globalization, especially as it pertains to all of the preceding interests.
His interests are heavily influenced by his experiences at Navajo Community  College, the first Native American tribal college in the U.S., and his observation that one could not understand even local politics in a subdivision of the Navajo Nation without close attention to centuries of history and connects to and effects of interaction with all larger forms of socio-political organization: state, national, and international. He has emphasized the study of those interactions from the local to the global. His attraction to, and interest in, world-systems analysis is found in its guidelines that all social actions must be studied historically and in the sociopolitical contexts.
Among his many publications are: Indigenous Peoples and Globalization: Resistance and Revitalization, with James V. Fenelon (2009, Paradigm); “Lessons from Comparing the Two Southwests: Southwest China and Northwest New Spain / Southwest USA.” Journal of World-Systems Research 19:1(Winter, 2013):24-56; “The Ecology of Herding: Conclusions, Questions, Speculations.” Pp. 267 – 280 in The Ecology of Pastoralism edited by P. Nick Kardulias. 2015. Boulder: University Press of Colorado;“Environment, Power, Development in Global South: Revolutions, Blue & Green.” Nature + Culture 11:2(Summer):215-228. A longer biographical statement is available at A Long Strange Trip: Reminisces of an Academic Career. 2016. Trajectories 47:3(Spring):87-95 (Newsletter of the ASA Comparative and Historical Sociology Section).
In retirement he continues his academic activities. His curriculum vitae and most of his publications are available on Academia.edu. 

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