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Introduction: Globalization: Fluid Concept, Multiple Reality Part 1: The Age of Empires, 3000BCE - 1500 CE The Imperial Disposition & Civilizational Empires 1.1 Egypt, The Narmer Palette (c. 3100 BCE) 1.2 Persia: Zarathustra, Avesta (9th/10th Centuries BCE) 1.3 Vedic Civilization India: Rig Veda (10th Century BCE) 1.4 Mesopotamia: The Epic of Gilgamesh (1200 BCE/ 700 BCE) 1.5 Ancient Israel: The Yahwist Myth of Creation and Fall (10th Century BCE) 1.6 China: Zhou Dynasty: Mencius on the Mandate of Heaven (c. 370 BCE - c. 290 BCE) 1.7 Arabia: Mohammad, Qu'ran & The Treaty of Hudabiyya 1.8 The Americas: The Abenaki Creation Story (3,000 BCE) 1.9 Greece: Homer, Iliad (725-675 BCE) Imperial Systems, Conflict, and Expansion 1.10 Egypt: Ramses II, The Battle of Kadesh (c. 1273 BCE) 1.11 Babylonia: Achaemenid Empire (550 - 330 BCE), Cyrus the Great 1.12 The Peloponnesian War (431 - 404 BCE): Thucydides 1.13 Alexander the Great of Macedonia: Plutarch 1.14 Post-Alexandrine Empires: Ptolemy I, The Rosetta Stone (196 BCE) 1.15 India: The Myuran Empire, Edicts of Ashoka 1.16 Rome, the Republic: Cicero (106 BCE - 43 BCE), de Re Publica 1.17 Rome, the Empire: Augustus, Deeds of Augustus (Res Gestae Divi Augusti) 1.19 Korea: Samguk Sagi: Unified Silla and the T'ang Dynasty 1.20 China: Fall of the Qin and the rise of the Han dynasty Instability and Decline in Global Empires 1.21 The Americas: Mayan Civilization, The Dresden Codex 1.22 Africa: Ibn Hawkal on the empires of Ghana and Mali 1.23 Japan: the Kojiki to the Edo Period 1.24 Americas: The Incas, Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui (1438 - 1471) 1.25 Rome, the decline: Constantine & Augustine of Hippo 1.26 Mississippian Trading Zone: Cahokia Mounds (c. 1000 - 1100) 1.27 The Ottomans: Breach to the West 1.28 Meso-America: The Conquest of New Spain Part 2: The Modern World System & Industrial Capitalism, 1500 - 1914 The European Voyages of Exploration and Discovery in the 16th Century 2.1 European World Economy 2.2 The Scandinavian Probes to North America 2.3 The Iberian Discoveries of the Americans 2.4 The English Settlements in North America 2.5 The Iberian Circumnavigation: Ferdinand Magellan The Interstate System & Colonization: After 1648 2.6 The Peace of Westphalia 2.7 America in the European Imagination 2.8 Early Trade Routes to the East: Marco Polo & the Silk Road 2.9 The Colony as the Gulag of Undesirables: Australia 2.10 The Colony as Wholly Owned Subsidiary: Leopold and the Belgian Congo 2.11 Pax Britannica & the Colonization of Civil Virtues The New Sciences of Global Imagination 2.12 The New Psychology of the Migrating Self: Descartes 2.15 Print & Literacy: Gutenberg & Luther 2.14 Longitudinal Reckoning 2.16 The War Machine: Land & Sea 2.17 Weights & Measures 2.18 Steam & Thermodynamics: Robert Boyle & James Watt 2.19 Steel & Heavy Industry: Bessemer 2.20 On the Origin of Species: Darwin Part 3: The Short Twentieth Century: Global Uncertainty and Restructuring Revival of Empire, Global Wars, & Europe's Decline: 1914-1945 3.1 Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand 3.2 The Great War of 1914 & Europe's Lost Imperium 3.3 End of Dynasty & Nationalism in China, 1911 3.4 Versailles & the 30 Years war with Germany 3.5 Lenin and the Soviet Union, 1917 3.6 Japan and the Cult of the Emperor 3.7 National Socialism in Germany 3.8 The American Century, 1941 The Cold War as a Struggle for Global Control: 1946-1975 3.9 The Iron Curtain 3.10 The American Threat & Stalinism Ideology 3.11 The Soviet Threat & the Principle of Deterrence 3.12 Great Britain & Suez Crisis 3.13 Sponsored Resistance to Hegemonic Intrusions: Ho Chi Min Decolonizing Struggles: 1947 to 1962 3.15 Negritude and Violence 3.16 The Expulsion of th...

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Charles Lemert is the Andrus Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University, USA and Visiting Research Professor at Flinders University, Australia.

Anthony Elliott is Professor of Sociology at Flinders University, Australia and Visiting Research Professor at Open University, UK.

Daniel Chaffee is Associate Lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University, Australia.

Eric Hsu is a PhD candidate and Associate Lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University, Australia.