Globalization A Reader [Paperback]

Expected to become a classic in the field and the classroom standard for teachers and their students, this book offers the most comprehensive, engaging selection of classic and contemporary readings on globalization currently available.

Here, for the first time in print, is the full historical story of globalization  drawn from original sources, explained by accessible introductions and biographical commentaries, and clearly organized as a comprehensive teaching text to guide students through the ins and outs of globalization. With astonishing social, political and historical depth, the book ranges from the Babylonian and Persian empires in Mesopotamia to the global electronic economy of the 21^stcentury, from ancient Greece and imperial Rome to transformations in contemporary state power and global inequalities. From Kenichi Ohmae to Al Gore, from Osama bin Laden to Timothy Garton-Ash, from Amartya Sen to Abdou Maliq Simone: this is a dazzling collection of the most important academic and public statements on globalization.

Throughout, the Editors expertly guide the reader through the complex terrain of globalization  its engaging histories, its transnational economies, its multiple cultures and cosmopolitan politics.

Introduction: Globalization: Fluid Concept, Multiple Reality  Part I: The Age of Empires, 3000BCE  1500 CE  The Imperial Disposition & Civilizational Empires  1.1 Egypt, The Narmer Palette (c. 3100 BCE)  1.2 Persia: Zarathustra, Avesta (9th/10th Centuries BCE)  1.3 Vedic Civilization India: Rig Veda (10th Century BCE)  1.4 Mesopotamia: The Epic of Gilgamesh (1200 BCE/ 700 BCE)  1.5 Ancient Israel: The Yahwist Myth of Creation and Fall (10th Century BCE)  1.6 China: Zhou Dynasty: Mencius on the Mandate of Heaven (c. 370 BCE - c. 290 BCE)  1.7 Arabia: Mohammad, Qu'ran & The lÃj