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Global History: A Short Overview, and: The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative (review)

Global History: A Short Overview, and: The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological... Book Reviews Global History: A Short Overview. By noel cowen. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001. 213 + x pp. $24.95 (paper). The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative. By robert b. marks. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. 172 + xi pp. $63.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Both of these two small books are remarkable for what they try to do and for what they accomplish. Each sets out an analytical framework that is accessible to students while providing an approach to world history that aspires to be truly global. Each has some deficiencies, but often they are a reflection of the differences in geographical expertise between the author and the reviewer. Noel Cowen's short global history is built around four organizing ideas. His first conceptual tool is a dynamic dyad of civilization and globalization. The civilization derives from an impulse toward permanent settlement; globalization, from the impulse toward wider horizons. His second premise is that a settlement on the way to civilization passes through three phases. Initially the emphasis is on subsistence. As that succeeds and settlement becomes complex, the next phase features political solutions to the problems of defining and defending hegemonies created by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

Global History: A Short Overview, and: The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative (review)

Ringrose, David R.
Journal of World History , Volume 15 (4) – May 16, 2005
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Book Reviews Global History: A Short Overview. By noel cowen. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001. 213 + x pp. $24.95 (paper). The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative. By robert b. marks. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. 172 + xi pp. $63.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Both of these two small books are remarkable for what they try to do and for what they accomplish. Each sets out an analytical framework that is accessible to students while providing an approach to world history that aspires to be truly global. Each has some deficiencies, but often they are a reflection of the differences in geographical expertise between the author and the reviewer. Noel Cowen's short global history is built around four organizing ideas. His first conceptual tool is a dynamic dyad of civilization and globalization. The civilization derives from an impulse toward permanent settlement; globalization, from the impulse toward wider horizons. His second premise is that a settlement on the way to civilization passes through three phases. Initially the emphasis is on subsistence. As that succeeds and settlement becomes complex, the next phase features political solutions to the problems of defining and defending hegemonies created by

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Published: May 16, 2005

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