In this fully revised fourth edition, this book treats globalization from several vantage points, showing how these help grasp the nature of globalization both in the past and today.
Peter Stearns is Distinguished University Professor of History at George Mason University. For several decades he has regularly taught world history and globalization courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. He has published titles in the Themes in World History series, on subjects including time, human rights, and happiness, with his latest release Punishment in World History.
