| Book Review | Journal of World History, 15.3

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Book Review

Geopolitics and Globalization in the Twentieth Century. By BRIAN W. BLOUET. London: Reaktion Books, 2001. 204 pp. $35.00 (hardcover).

Between the toppling of the Berlin Wall and the popping of the info-tech bubble, "globalization" as a concept moved from business circles to the parlance of advertisers, journalists, social scientists, and university administrators. "Globalization" represented something new, and many of its academic promoters spoke unabashedly in epochal—indeed millennial—terms. Such presentist arguments met major resistance, however, from a set of historically minded works in various fields, including economics, anthropology, political science, and history itself. In the last few years, the globalization debate has shifted in large part to the problem of its history. Its defenders are now compelled to explain its historical emergence and delineate its periodization. The volume under review—part of the world history series Globalities, edited by Jeremy Black—presents a history of globalization from the perspective of political geography. It argues that globalization is a product of an Anglo-American maritime trading practice that seeks "the free flow of goods, capital, and ideas" (p. 7). Geopolitics is conversely defined as the territorial control of space, resources, and capacities. Twentieth-century history, according to the author, was grounded by the struggle between these competing systems of social organization.

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