Globalization in History
Midterm
Write about 1500 words (5-6 double spaced pages) on two of the following questions.
It is due as an email attachment (either a Word .doc file or .rtf file) to Sam White saw2105@columbia.edu at 12 noon on Friday, March 3. It will be graded down 3 points for each day late.
1) Write a narrative of the development of globalization from 1400 to 1820.
2) What are the conditions of the early modern world (c. 1400-1800) that facilitated non-state violence? What role did this violence play in the processes of early modern globalization?
3) What is at stake in the debate between O’Rourke/Williamson and Flynn/Giráldez on the beginning of globalization? What difference, if any, might it make to accept one starting point over another in understanding the processes and implications of contemporary globalization?