Historical Development of Globalization 1 §
- History and Development of Globalization is perceived in different ways:
- Hardwired: humans have a nature to globalize which started since the Ice Age
- Cycles: globalization evolves in a cyclical manner. Globalized features develops, erodes, then reborn.
- Phases: globalization happens in 8 different bursts for different reasons and in different forms since the agriculture revolution to the 21st century of East Asia emergence.
- Events: globalization evolves in a linear manner, developments happens due to certain historical events starting from the expansion of the Roman Empire.
When did the term “globalization” become popular? 2 §
- Globalization Coined in second half of 20th century
- 15th century: ‘Globe’ came from Latin
- later defined the world as a sphere
- Global circulated in 17th century and added the meaning of ‘world scale’ in 19th century
- Globalize and Globalism appeared in 1940s
- Globalization first used in 1959, in dictionary in 1961
- Was not popular during the Cold War but did after
- Globality circulated in the 1980s
- It became popular in recent decades
- got translated to many languages
- ideas of globalization it appeared independently in different fields roughly at the same time (1980s) in Sociology, Business, International Relations, Economist, Geographers
- Now its in education, main concern of global conferences
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