HIST 012 Globalization
Spooner / Guillen
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
This course will review the current state of globalization and examine the history of its development. We will focus on a series of questions not only about the actual processes but about the growing awareness of them, and the consequences of this awareness. In answering these questions, we will distinguish between conscious campaigns to cover the world (religious and political: e.g. Islam, Christianity, Communism) and unplanned diffusion of processes, such as trade, capitalism, tourism and the internet. The body of the course will deal with a series of analytical types of globalization, reviewing both the pre-modern and contemporary history of these processes.
