globalization 
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SOURCE: University of California Press
2/9/2021
Who Gets to Govern the Global Economy?
by Christy Thornton
Johns Hopkins Latin Americanist Christy Thornton describes her book "Revolution In Development" and its contribution to understanding how Mexican officials fought against dismissive treatment from the world's leading economic powers as they sought a voice in shaping the international economic order.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
1/26/2021
How Mexico Reshaped the Global Economy: Interview With Christy Thornton
The Mexican government demanded a program of economic reparations to the developing world, but the system of international aid and trade that emerged worsened exploitation.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
11/10/2020
The Prosperity Hoax
A 2020 report on global poverty suggests that the problem is getting worse, directly attacking the methodologies the World Bank has used for decades to justify global capitalism as an anti-poverty program.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/12/2020
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt (Review)
An attack by the pirate Henry Every on a ship owned by the Grand Mughal of India jeopardized the toehold the British East India Company had gained in India. The British government's response helped launch imperial rule.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/15/2020
This Is Not the Time to Let the Market Decide
by Jamie Martin
When it comes to crucial medical supplies, cooperation, not competition, will save lives. History shows that it works.
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SOURCE: Zocalo Public Square
3/29/2020
When Americans Fell in Love with The Ideal of ‘One World’
by Samuel Zipp
In 1943, failed presidential candidate Wendell Willkie advanced a strikingly anti-racist, anti-colonial plan to bring the planet together.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/27/2020
Coronavirus Shows the Perils and Promise of Globalization
by Samuel Zipp
During the first age of “America First” in the 1940s, Wendell Wilkie's campaign challenged Americans to confront a discomfiting idea: Our lives depend on the well-being of many millions across the world.
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SOURCE: NCBI
Accessed 2/26/20
The History of the Impact of Globalization on Infectious Disease Emergence and Control
The current era of globalization is more properly viewed as an intensification of trends that have occurred throughout history.
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SOURCE: NYT
4-25-18
Historian Erik Loomis makes the case for a federal jobs guarantee
by Erik Loomis
Resurrecting Humphrey-Hawkins can help pre-empt a technology crisis and even future labor dislocation from globalization.
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9-24-17
The Remarkably Similar Parallels Between the Debate About Our Role in the World in 2016 and 1919
by Michael S. Neiberg
With the benefit of time we can see more clearly the essential bifurcation in American views about US leadership and how they began in the aftermath of the heated debate over the Treaty of Versailles.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
12-29-16
Angela Merkel and the history book that helped inform her worldview
The book is by Jürgen Osterhammel, a professor at Konstanz University, who argues that the 19th century should be recast as the century marked by globalization, not nationalism.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
12-29-16
The world today looks ominously like it did before World War I
A backlash to globalization appears to be gaining strength around the world.
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11-30-14
Is Globalization the New Paradigm for History?
by Lynn Hunt
Now that a clearer view of globalization in that period is emerging, it is time for historians to think more systematically about how the parts fit together.
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7-4-14
This Man Figured Out How to Keep Manufacturing Jobs in America
by Beth Macy
With a fascinating but complicated hero at my story’s center, I set out to explain why more than 5 million workers lost their jobs over the past 15 years.
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