Describe the Globalization in Historical Perspective.

This subject introduces students to the main concepts, topics and historical pivot points in the development ofglobalisation, understood as constituted by cultural, economic and political processes. The main concepts introducedare world systems theory and perspectives from postcolonial studies. Some of the key topics and historical pivot pointsinclude: empires and the development of the nation-state system, mercantilism, the Industrial Revolution, and Fordism.Students develop core skills in academic literacy for the humanities and social sciences