Globalization is an historical process that began with the first movement of people out of Africa into other parts of the world. Traveling short or long distances, migrants, merchants and others have delivered their ideas, customs and products to new lands. The melding, borrowing and adaptation of outside influences are found in many areas of human life.
The Peterson Institute for International Economics offers a reminder about an age-old process: “Globalization encourages each country to specialize in what it produces best using the least amount of resources.”
Globalization of Food & Plants
Explore multiple articles on the remarkable journey that food and plants have taken throughout world history
Lessons From History: Globalization Then and Now
Globalization brings old problems and new ones
Fast, Freewheeling Globalization for All
Attempts to understand and control globalization must wrestle with its heady speed
Explore how ideas and imagination from across the globe have come together to shape our world
Bound Together: Players Who Shaped the Globe
The modern counterparts of history’s traders, preachers, adventurers and warriors are at work today
Global connections have grown for thousands of years, but ways to manage them have been slow to develop
Chaos could shock nations, balkng at global governance, into cooperation
Globalization of the Television Supply Chain
The supply chain has reduced prices for television sets worldwide
Consumers want to protect jobs but also favor low costs
Historians may be too focused on national borders
There were twists, turns and distortions
Identity History: Austronesian Asia?
Regional history should acknowledge culture, history and global prominence
The Islamic World and the West
A long and common history too often goes ignored
World War II still influences relations