Frank Jacob, "Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century" (Transcript Publishing, 2022)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Difference Between World History and Global History
I was wondering if you break down the difference between world history versus global history. I will try to do that quite shortly if you are interested in that. Every history is global because it happens on the globe and it is interconnected. But very often there is no intentional connection. It is based on a lot of intermediaries that are mobile like the pastoralist societies in the steppins. The real system that allows global interactions on purpose, that means people start somewhere in the Philippines on a journey around the globe with a purpose to make profit, that is possible in the existing world system.
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