The New Global Merchants of Light
Abstract
Bruce Mazlish reflects on the transition of humanity from modernity to globalization.
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Professor Wolf Schafer of the University of NY at Stony Brook is doing the best work exploring this problem from both sides.
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Bacon also speaks of those who direct new experiments of a “higher light” (p. 136). Cf. Gombrich (1998).
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In my book, The Uncertain Sciences (Yale 1998; paperback with new introduction, Transaction Press, 2007) I go into much more detail on Francis Bacon and seventeenth century science.
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Robert Kaplan in his book The Empire of Geography (2012) comes close to taking this position, although giving lip service to human activity.
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Global Inc: An Atlas of the Multinational Corporation by Medard Gabel and Henry Bruner. A project of the New Global History Initiative, the World Game Institute, and o.s.Earth. The conference behind this Atlas also resulted in a book, Leviathans: Multinational Corporations and the New Global History.
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- Article
- Putting Refugees in Their Place
- Commentary
- The New Global Merchants of Light
- Reportage
- Global Systemic Shift: A Multidimensional Approach to Understand the Present Phase of Globalization
- Book Review
- Planning the Lower Mekong Basin: Social Intervention on the Se San River, Ly Thim, Lit. Verlag Dr. W. Hopf Berlin, 2010. 223pp. ISBN 978-3-643-10834-0
- Europe’s Unfinished Currency: The Political Economics of the Euro, Thomas Mayer, London and New York: Anthem Press, 2012. 272 pp. ISBN 978-0-85728-548-5
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