The 1850s as Turning Point: The Birth of Globalization? - A Novel Choice?

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When does Zeiler see patterns taking shape that point to the "early era of globalization"? What patterns did he see?

- Zeiler sees patterns taking shape before World War I as the "early era of globalization."
- It was fueled not only by new steamships but also the two great world canals, Suez (1869) and then Panama (completed in 1914), which sped commerce around the globe; and also by real breakthroughs in communications, with telegraph lines between the United States and Latin America and Europe, and British cables lines to Asia, allowing faster commercial interactions and exchanges of news than before.

What will this chapter amplify?

Patterns of immigration, the onset of new kinds of global connections in popular culture ("Americanization"), and a really new era in political globalization with the emergence of capacities to define global standards in a number of areas - beyond anti-slavery - and the formation of international conventions on a host of crucial topics.

What does 1750 capture?

The early stages of British and then European industrialization.
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What developments related to globalization does the nineteenth century focus on?

- Economic upheaval - industrialization
- Political and social challenge through the revolutionary ideas and precedents.
- Further blossoming of Western imperialism, with Africa, Oceania, and new parts of southeast Asia offering new jewels to European imperial crowns.

What beginning do recent historians see in the end of 1914?

The beginning of the end of European imperial dominance, thanks to the weakening of the major European powers and the unintended encouragement given to nationalist movements elsewhere, from Japan through India and Turkey to Africa.

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