Global Expansion and Interaction

Author's thesis

The author, David Ringrose, have presented a book on global history and civilization. The author has covered Asia, Africa and Latin America. The theme of the book is the global history. The theme is presented in a cross-cultural and comparative manner. The theme of the book being world history covers the time-period from 1200 to 1700. He has shown how societies have achieved interdependence globally. He has focused on the political, cultural and economic zone of influence on the expansion and overlapping in China, Aztec and Inca Empire. He concluded his theme by Europeans influenced the globe but were not dominant by that date.

Arguments supporting thesis

First argument gave by (Ringrose, 2001) is the concept of globalization. Although the concept of globalization is very recent, the term has existed throughout history. Globalization begins to take greater height from the Industrial Revolution some 200 years (eighteenth century) in England, which was the most developed country in the world for that time. Distinguished thinkers developed theories of international trade, which have survived all this time because they are right and consistent. These theories are based on what is called the principle of comparative advantage. According to them, each country should be devoted to producing those products which are better prepared than others.

Next argument presented in the book by (Ringrose, 2001) is the process of globalization. This argument supports the thesis by describing that how much process had been done in terms of globalization. Globalization is a process of economic, technological, social and societal scale, which consists of increasing communication and interdependence among countries of the world by unifying its markets, societies and cultures, through a series of social, economic and political that give a character overall. Globalization is often identified as a dynamic process produced mainly by the societies living under parliamentary capitalism or liberal democracy and which have opened their doors to the information revolution, folding to a considerable degree of liberalization and democratization in political culture in its legal system and national economic and international relations.

Third argument by the author David, Ringrose (2001) is the time-period taken, by globalization to evolve and progress all around the world. From the 1200-1700 A.D, globalization was a new-born concept. It was not so much progressed and developed. With the passage, of time it progressed to every corner of the world making it a global village. This process originated in Western Civilization and has spread around the world in the last decades of the Modern Age (second half of the twentieth century) receives a major boost with the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War and continues in the XXI century. The economy is characterized by the integration of local economies to a market economy where global modes of production and capital movements are configured on a global scale (New Economy) becoming more important role of multinational corporations and the free movement capital along with the final implementation of the consumer society. The law also feeling the effects of ...