‘Globalisation’ is often referred to as an economic system that has emerged since the last 50 years or so. The making of the global world has a long history of trade, migration of people in search of work, the movement of capital, etc.
Silk Routes Link the World:
Food Travels: Spaghetti and Potato
Conquest, Disease and Trade
A World Economy Takes Shape
Role of Technology
Late nineteenth-century Colonialism
Rinderpest or the Cattle Plague:
Indentured Labour Migration from India
Indian Entrepreneurs Abroad
Indian Trade, Colonialism and the Global System
Wartime Transformations
Post-war Recovery
Rise of Mass Production and Consumption
The Great Depression:
Causes of the depression:
India and the Great Depression:
Post-war Settlement and the Bretton Woods Institutions:
The Early Post-war Years:
Decolonisation and Independence:
End of Bretton Woods and the Beginning of ‘Globalisation’:
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