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Description. Global history emphasizes the study of processes that transcend regions, nations, and even any single civilization.

Abstract. The history of the Second Age of Globalization (from 1945 through to the present) has traditionally been told through the lens of either the industrially advanced First World, or, more critically, the developing countries of the Third World.

Albrow was early in identifying the shortcomings of theories of modernity to account for the outlook of our time. He describes the shift that has occurred from modernity to globality and he refers to this new epoch as the global age.

Elements of economic globalization The growth in cross-border economic activities takes five principal forms: (1) international trade; (2) foreign direct investment; (3) capital market flows; (4) migration (movement of labor); and (5) diffusion of technology (Stiglitz, 2003).

The First Global Age refers to the time between Columbus's discovery of the New World in 1492 to the American Revolution in the 1770's. The breakdown of feudalism and the emergence of the modern nation-state system were foundational factors leading to European global dominance.

THE EMERGENCE OF THE FIRST GLOBAL AGE, 1450-1770. The Iberian voyages of the late 15th and early 16th centuries linked not only Europe with the Americas but laid down a communications net that ultimately joined every region of the world with every other region.

“Global age” refers to a period of time when there is a prevailing sense of the interconnectedness of all human beings, of a common fate for the human species and of a threat to its life on this Earth.

World history encompasses a history that is not necessarily completely interconnected through globalization, while global history examines this specific history of interconnectivity.