![]() Both identify a shift, in the eighteenth century, away from incipient global forms to the primacy of the nation-state yet both mark the beginnings of a new global consciousness in the second half of the nineteenth century. Political scientist David Held traces the development of globalization from the Roman and Mongol empires sociologist Roland Robertson begins his schematization in the fifteenth century. Globalization, although frequently hailed as a recent phenomenon, has been a long historical process. ![]() Contemporary theories, it is true, focus on the compression of the world through internet connectivity, the rise of multinational corporations, and the homogenizing work of globally marketed music and film today economics rather than science is "welding the world into a whole." But it is doubtful whether we are much further in grasping the implications of Garnett's title, "The World Becoming One." ![]() Today, the clock may be running faster, but the discourse of globalization is surprisingly the same. So wrote Maxwell Garnett, Secretary of the League of Nations Union, in 1924. are welding the world into a whole, whether its people wish it or not. ![]()
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