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This week's readings in the last of Hobsbawm's novel was mainly focused on science and revolution. In this final section, Hobsbawn e...

In Book lll of "Leo Africanus," the question of identity is discussed. In the book, Hasan takes a new name when he is exiled. If y...

This week's readings was in a new book, "Leo Africanus" by Amin Malalouf. This was was a welcome relief from all the monotonou...

In this week's reading of "The Age of Empire," Hobsbawm discusses the rise of nationalism and along with that, the rise of wom...

During the readings for this week we continued reading the book by Hobsbawn. He continued to tell of the growing European powers and how it ...

In this week's reading, Hobsbawm discusses the rise of the proletariat and the shift of power to the rising phenomenon of democracy. Thr...

During this week we finished the book Age of Empire by Eric Hobsbawn. It basically described the world druing the time period of 1875 – 19...

I find that the internet is a great thing with millions of possibilities. The internet is still a very young invention and still has a far w...

This week's readings come from Eric Hobsbawm's "The Age of Empire," and focused primarily on the Europe's reign of wor...

This week, Abu-Lughod talks about the history of trade from the Mongols to the Cairo region, the Indian Ocean to China. What I found especia...

The first week of classes we were introduced to the book Before European Hegemony. The demise of the economy and the many barbaric invasion...

Neoliberalism This week’s reading was about neo-liberalism. Neo-liberalism is simply a ‘new’ kind of liberalism. “Liberalism” can refer to...

Postnationalism In this week’s reading, Mohammed A. Bamyeh discusses post nationalism. Post nationalism came about to replace nationalism i...

Leo Africanus Leo Africanus begins with Leo describing the relationship between his mother and father and how he came to be born. He tells ...

The Age of the Empire In Chapter 13 of “The Age of the Empire,” Hobsbawm details how the norm in Europe shifted from peace to violence. Pri...

Before European Hegemony In the section “Emergence from Old Empires,” the epic “fall of Rome” was outlined and discussed. I was very intrig...

Neoliberalism is often seen as a derogatory term given to its supporters because opponents use it to highlight the ills of global capitalism...

Every publication is subject to bias and Wikipedia is no different. The fact that much of its content is user created should make most of u...

I think that the internet and overall technology are capable of much more than we can even fathom. The declaration condescendingly implies t...

This article discusses the emergence and the laissez-faire type ideological principles of neoliberalism and responses to it from South Ameri...

The first reading by Bamyeh discusses post-nationalism. Postnationalism refers to the process by which cultural identity has become less imp...

Hobsbawm focused these sections of the book on science and its growing importatce to the world before World War I. He discusses how the west...

A major byproduct of democratization was nationalism. Although, nationalistic ideals had been a constant throughout world history, the term ...

This section of readings involved the end of Abu Lughod's book. At the conclusion of Before European Hegemony , we take a look at the ea...

The first part of this section deals with the Persian Gulf and the middle passage route from to the East. The Persian Gulf was the cheapest ...

The focus of this section is the Italian city-states of Genoa and Venice. Genoa was a port city from inception. It was one of the most enthu...

Before European Hegemony by Janet Abu-Lughod, discusses 13th century world economics. She talks about the world system being centered primar...

Neoliberalism is an economic and political strategy the believes globalization can only succeed with the principle of free trade. These type...

This week we focused on the importance of the Middle East and the conflicts they had because of where they were geographically... The Middle...

For week two's reading Janet Abu - Lughod discusses Venice and Genoa's history of trade. Both Genoa and Venice were supreme forces ...

In before European Hegemony, Janet L. Abu - Lughod attempts to bring light to the time period before Europe became a dominant power. The re...

Can there ever be a world government? At first I thought that there was no way the human race would come together and be governed by a sing...

If the government was removed from world trade, I feel that there would still be problems and that poorer countries would still remain poor....

The last thing we talked about in this semester was neoliberalism. Trade is very important to neoliberalists seeing as they don't think ...

Part 1: Potomaki and Teivainen had a very interesting article that discussed the political and economic theory of neoliberalism. The best th...

This week’s reading was on the subject of neoliberalism which is an economic ideology involving the reduction of restraints on economic inst...

This week’s reading was on the subject of neoliberalism which is an economic ideology involving the reduction of restraints on economic inst...

This week's reading cover globalization, cosmopolitan democracy, and neo-liberalism. The authors provide examples of each through the Eu...

This article discusses the Mercosur trade agreement in South America. In this article, Neoglobalization is questioned. It is close to cosm...

I think that the article about free culture was very interesting. I found that the argument that restrictions on different things actually m...

We concluded the semester by talking about Neoliberalism . A Neoliberalist would support free trade. They also support things like the IMF ...

The Western world, particularly the United States, have held varying degrees of hegemony over the rest of the world for almost the entire ...

The article covers this issue with the trade agreement in South America called Mercosur. The only issue that I see, with i...

Although the audio was poor at times, I found the movie we watched in class about free culture to be very interesting. Much like some of the...

Patomaki and Teivainen’s “Critical response to neoliberal globalization in the Mercosur region: roads towards cosmopolitan democracy?” begin...

In this interesting article, Potomaki and Teivainen question the political-economic theory of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism (in my opinion) i...