Empires and autonomy moments in the history of globalization (UBC Press, 2009)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
1 Introduction -- 2 Tibet and the Chinese World-Empire -- 3 Litigating for Freedom in the British Empire, 1815-22: The Universal and Local in Tension -- 4 Ottoman Military and Social Transformations, 1826-28: Engagement and Resistance in a Moment of Global Imperialism -- 5 Wired Religion: Spiritualism and Telegraphic Globalization in the Nineteenth Century -- 6 The Internationalization of Capital: The Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 7 Global Industrial Enclaves: Company Towns and Export- Processing Zones Compared, 1900-2000-- 8 Freedom of the Ether or the Electromagnetic Commons? Globality, the Public Interest, and Multilateral Radio Negotiations in the 1920s -- 9 A Globalization Moment: Franklin D. Roosevelt in Casablanca (January 1943) and the Decolonization/Development Impulse -- 10 Paradigm Shift and the Nuremberg Trials: The Emergence of the Individual as a Subject and Object of International Law -- 11 The US-Led Globalization Project in the Third World: The Struggle for Hearts and Minds in Guatemala and Vietnam in the 1960s -- 12 A Globalizing Moment: The United Nations' Decades for Development and the North African Countries -- 13 Snakes That Are Rainbows: Indigenous Worldviews and the Constitution of Autonomy -- 14 Globalization and US Empire: Moments in the Forging of the Global Turn
"Globalization is one of most significant developments of our time. But what distinguishes the present era from "golden" periods of empire building in past? Which elements of contemporary globalization and forms of autonomy are particularly novel and which are merely continuations of long-standing historical trends?" "To address these questions, Empires and Autonomy brings together a distinguished group of scholars who explore particular historical moments that involved either the establishment or protection of autonomy. These global encounters inevitably involved friction, and the contributors examine the dialectic between globalization and autonomy at moments that range in time from the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1720 to the meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986 that led to the end of the Cold War. By examining uniquely telling historical moments, the tightly focused, interdisciplinary essays show that globalization has been anything but systematic or complete."--Jacket