A Big History of Globalization

Introduction: Big History Context.- Introduction: Globalization Context.- Archaic Globalization: The Birth of the World System.- Global Dynamics 1-1800 CE: Trends and Cycles.- Proto-Modern and Early Modern Globalization. How Was the Global World Born?.- Early Modern Globalization and World Dynamics: Global Growth, Global Crisis, and Global Divergence.- The Early Modern Period: Emerging Global Processes and Institutions.- Global Technological and Economic Transformations in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries.- Global Sociopolitical Transformations of the 19th Century.- Global Sociocultural Transformations of the 19th Century.- The First "Golden Age" of Globalization (1870-1914).- Conclusion: The Big History of Globalization Told in Ten Pages.

Julia V. Zinkina is a Senior Research Fellow of the International Research Laboratory on Demography and Human Capital at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) in Moscow. She also holds a research position at the Faculty of Global Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Her current research interests include demographic processes at global and national levels, worldwide social networks, sociopolitical destabilization, macrohistory and long-term trends. She is the author of more than 90 publications including two monographs in Russian.

David Gilbert Christian is the Director of Macquarie University's Big History Institute, Australia. He is a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, and the Royal Society of N.S.W. In 2004, he published the first monograph on "Big History", Maps of Time (University of California Press). With Bill Gates, he is a co-founder of the "Big History Project", which has developed free online high-school courses in big history. Since 2013, he has been Director of Macquarie University's Big History Institute, and led the collaboration of twenty academics across all faculties to develop Macquarie University's MOOC on big history: "Big History: Connecting Knowledge", on the Coursera platform.

Leonid E. Grinin is a Senior Research Professor at the Laboratory for Monitoring of the Sociopolitical Destabilization Risks at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia; the Deputy Director of the Eurasian Center for Big History & System Forecasting and Senior Research Professor at the Institute for Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Russian journal Age of Globalization as well as a co-editor of the international journals Social Evolution & History and Journal of Globalization Studies. His current