Tag Archives: History of Globalization
Microbes in Motion: Touring World History
There has been considerable historical evidence that pathogenic microorganisms are poised to launch new assaults on a global scale.
Christopher Columbus Vs. Vasco da Gama
In the history of globalization, what was more successful — Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the Americas, or Vasco da Gama’s discovery of India?
Remembering the Start of Globalization
The train of globalization left the station when Columbus reached the Americas. It will never go back.
The Decline of the West
This summer will mark the centenary of the appearance of the first volume of Oswald Spengler’s influential The Decline of the West.
Deconstructing Globalization
The anthropological dimension of why we blame “globalization” for our own, very human lack of proper action and understanding.
Why Some Nations Grow Fast (and Others Don’t)
What are the historical origins and future prospects of the Chinese business model?
German Scientists as 18th-Century Globalists
The Germans did not have an overseas empire in the 18th century. How did they still become a global force in trade, science, religion and exploration?
Religion and Economic Success in Europe
Why does the idea persist that Europe’s Catholic nations have always been economic slow-growers?
The Catholic Origins of Globalization
Why do some economists persist in stereotyping Europe’s Catholic nations as laggards, when they practically invented what we today call globalization?
America and Europe: John Locke vs. Saint Augustine
How have religious influences changed the way Americans and Europeans think about the role of government?
