Introduction to international and global studies /
"This innovative introduction to international and global studies, updated and revised in a new edition, offers instructors in the social sciences and humanities a core textbook for teaching undergraduates in this rapidly growing field. Encompassing the latest scholarship in what is a markedly...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press
[2020]
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469660011_smallman |
| Summary: | "This innovative introduction to international and global studies, updated and revised in a new edition, offers instructors in the social sciences and humanities a core textbook for teaching undergraduates in this rapidly growing field. Encompassing the latest scholarship in what is a markedly interdisciplinary endeavor, Shawn Smallman and Kimberley Brown introduce key concepts, themes, and issues and then examine each in lively chapters on essential topics that include the history of globalization; economic, political, and cultural globalization; security, energy, and development; health; agriculture and food; and the environment. Within these topics, the authors explore such timely and pressing subjects as commodity chains, labor (including present-day slavery), human rights, multinational corporations, and the connections among them"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (366 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1469660016 9781469660011 9781469659992 1469659999 1-4696-5999-9 |