SOCIOL 2 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Industrial Revolution, Global Brain
Document Summary
Looks at historical waves of globalization through the lens of globalized food production and consumption. We build on his chapter to sketch out these prior waves generally. Galvanized by industrial revolution in europe/america (and more colonization) Colonization = establishment of economic, political, and social domination of the people within a territory by another country. Through killing, enslavement, and physical force, also disease. Citizens and officials of the colonizing country move to colonies to maintain control and exploitation. Empire = the country doing the colonizing and establishing world territories that way (e. g. the british empire) European empires colonized large parts of the americas, and parts of asia. Racism, belief in superiority of white europeans. European colonial expansion between the 16th and 18th century galvanized a first major wave of globalization. It facilitated the emergence of a nascent global market and global consciousness. European colonizers borrowed money from home countries to extract raw materials in colonies.
