Books by Niels P Petersson
The book examines, from the perspective of Germany, the mechanisms, actors and problems involved ... more The book examines, from the perspective of Germany, the mechanisms, actors and problems involved in the globalisation of economic norms and institutions from the late 19th century to the "de-globalisation" of the interwar period.
"Globalization" has become a popular buzzword for explaining today's world. The expression achiev... more "Globalization" has become a popular buzzword for explaining today's world. The expression achieved terminological stardom in the 1990s and was soon embraced by the general public and integrated into numerous languages.
But is this much-discussed phenomenon really an invention of modern times? In this work, Jürgen Osterhammel and Niels Petersson make the case that globalization is not so new, after all. Arguing that the world did not turn "global" overnight, the book traces the emergence of globalization over the past seven or eight centuries. In fact, the authors write, the phenomenon can be traced back to early modern large-scale trading, for example, the silk trade between China and the Mediterranean region, the shipping routes between the Arabian Peninsula and India, and the more frequently traveled caravan routes of the Near East and North Africa--all conduits for people, goods, coins, artwork, and ideas.
Osterhammel and Petersson argue that the period from 1750 to 1880--an era characterized by the development of free trade and the long-distance impact of the industrial revolution--represented an important phase in the globalization phenomenon. Moreover, they demonstrate how globalization in the mid-twentieth century opened up the prospect of global destruction though nuclear war and ecological catastrophe. In the end, the authors write, today's globalization is part of a long-running transformation and has not ushered in a "global age" radically different from anything that came before.
This book will appeal to historians, economists, and anyone in the social sciences who is interested in the historical emergence of globalization.
Jürgen Osterhammel is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Konstanz. He has published on modern Chinese history, imperialism, and the theory of history. Niels P. Petersson is Senior Lecturer in History at Sheffield Hallam University and has published on imperialism and economic history.
Reviews:
"Jürgen Osterhammel and Niels P. Petersson argue that . . . globalization has been long under way. While civilizations have always interacted, the stability and scale of western Europe's post-Columbian global networks of trade, migration, and cultural exchange differed qualitatively enough to count as the first stirrings of a globalization that continues to this day."--Choice
"[Globalization] stands out in the proliferation of textbooks and surveys on world history and globalization. It is a concise and, especially noteworthy, a precise essay on the time and place of globalization. . . . [T]his is a quick and intelligent little book."--Michael Geyer, H-Net
"[Osterhammel and Petersson] have produced a short and extremely helpful introduction to the history of globalization. . . . [The book] rightly tries to reach far beyond the more narrow confines of economic history . . . [to] draw on migration history, the history of slavery and of empires, and . . . international relations theory."--Harold James, International History Review
"This brief book provides an easy-to-read, well-organized addition to the globalization debate that offers a cogent analysis of the macroprocess by elucidating the long and uneven global developments that have brought us to the current era."--Colin Rowan, Journal of World History
"In this crisp account, two historians examine the long roots of globalization. . . . Scholars of world history will gain a great deal from this lucid, jargon-free analysis of globalization that is in many ways a most welcomed update of William H. McNeill's The Global Condition."--The Historian
"This excellent short book by German historians Jürgen Osterhammel and Niels P. Peteresson provides a fascinating, accessible sketch of the development of globalization. The authors bridge the gap between academic historians and general readers."--getAbstract
Die Europäische Union muss ihre Entscheidungsprozesse neu gestalten. Damit stellt sich die Frage ... more Die Europäische Union muss ihre Entscheidungsprozesse neu gestalten. Damit stellt sich die Frage nach der Legitimation der Europäischen Union und ihrer Institutionen. Der vorliegende Band fasst die Ergebnisse eines im Rahmen des WIN-Kollegs der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaft geförderten Forschungsprojekts zu den Legitimationsgrundlagen einer Europäischen Verfassung zusammen, die auf einer Tagung in Heidelberg diskutiert wurden. Thematisch werden zunächst in zwei Beiträgen Grundlagen legitimer suprastaatlicher Herrschaftsausübung und die Funktion und Ausgestaltung staatlicher Souveränität diskutiert. Es folgt eine Analyse des Zustandekommens der Institutionenordnung der EU und ein Vorschlag für ein nach dem Prinzip der "Völkersouveränität" verfasstes geeintes Europa, das einerseits den Mitgliedstaaten die Übertragungs- und Kontrollfunktion belässt, andererseits die demokratische Herrschaftsausübung in der Gemeinschaft stärkt. Schließlich wird in einer Fallstudie die unabhängige Stellung der EZB analysiert.
Globalisierung beginnt nicht erst in der Gegenwart. Sie hat sich über mehrere Jahrhunderte hinweg... more Globalisierung beginnt nicht erst in der Gegenwart. Sie hat sich über mehrere Jahrhunderte hinweg entfaltet. Das Buch beschreibt die Vielfalt der wirtschaftlichen, politischen und kulturellen Prozesse, die heute unter dem Begriff der Globalisierung zusammengefaßt werden. Es befaßt sich mit deren Ursachen und Auswirkungen, Rhythmen und Reichweiten.
In Varianten des informellen Imperialismus, wie sie nach der Jahrhundertwende in bzw. gegenüber S... more In Varianten des informellen Imperialismus, wie sie nach der Jahrhundertwende in bzw. gegenüber Siam und China entstanden, zeigen sich bereits Ansätze des heutigen liberalen marktwirtschaftlichen Entwicklungsdenkens. Petersson untersucht, welche Politik Großbritannien, Frankreich und das Deutsche Reich bei Modernisierungsfragen in Siam und China verfolgten.
Edited Books by Niels P Petersson
Shipping and Globalization in the Post-War Era Contexts, Companies, Connections, 2019
San Francisco 1906: Ein verheerendes Erdbeben, ein geografisch auf Kalifornien begrenztes Ereigni... more San Francisco 1906: Ein verheerendes Erdbeben, ein geografisch auf Kalifornien begrenztes Ereignis, löste finanzielle Schockwellen aus, die sehr schnell auch Europa erreichten. Denn für die durch Feuersbrünste entstandenen Schäden mussten Versicherungsgesellschaften in der ganzen Welt aufkommen. Anhand solcher konkreter Fallbeispiele verfolgt dieses Buch den methodisch und inhaltlich innovativen Ansatz, das theoretische Postulat einer globalen Geschichtsschreibung praktisch umzusetzen. So ergibt sich eine weit präzisere Sichtweise als bisher auf Prozesse der Globalisierung seit dem späten 18. Jahrhundert.
Papers by Niels P Petersson
This article examines the role of human resources in the business
strategy of Ocean Steam Ship Co... more This article examines the role of human resources in the business
strategy of Ocean Steam Ship Company (later Ocean Transport &
Trading), one of the United Kingdom’s leading shipping firms.
The time under review is the 1970s, a period of rapid and
disruptive change for the shipping industry and of considerable
difficulties for the UK economy. As a result of uncertainty
over the development of the shipping industry in general, and
Ocean’s business in particular, managing staff numbers and
career opportunities became key elements of the company’s
overall business strategy during these years. The article also
examines the changing objectives of that strategy, the means
by which these objectives were pursued, and the external constraints
under which these objectives had to take place. It argues
that Ocean found itself privileging the requirements of running
a “people business” over other strategic concerns and that
external constraints prevented the firm from pursuing theoretically
more appropriate strategies, such as increased use of
outsourcing and extricating itself from its UK-based, human
resource intensive business.
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Books by Niels P Petersson
But is this much-discussed phenomenon really an invention of modern times? In this work, Jürgen Osterhammel and Niels Petersson make the case that globalization is not so new, after all. Arguing that the world did not turn "global" overnight, the book traces the emergence of globalization over the past seven or eight centuries. In fact, the authors write, the phenomenon can be traced back to early modern large-scale trading, for example, the silk trade between China and the Mediterranean region, the shipping routes between the Arabian Peninsula and India, and the more frequently traveled caravan routes of the Near East and North Africa--all conduits for people, goods, coins, artwork, and ideas.
Osterhammel and Petersson argue that the period from 1750 to 1880--an era characterized by the development of free trade and the long-distance impact of the industrial revolution--represented an important phase in the globalization phenomenon. Moreover, they demonstrate how globalization in the mid-twentieth century opened up the prospect of global destruction though nuclear war and ecological catastrophe. In the end, the authors write, today's globalization is part of a long-running transformation and has not ushered in a "global age" radically different from anything that came before.
This book will appeal to historians, economists, and anyone in the social sciences who is interested in the historical emergence of globalization.
Jürgen Osterhammel is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Konstanz. He has published on modern Chinese history, imperialism, and the theory of history. Niels P. Petersson is Senior Lecturer in History at Sheffield Hallam University and has published on imperialism and economic history.
Reviews:
"Jürgen Osterhammel and Niels P. Petersson argue that . . . globalization has been long under way. While civilizations have always interacted, the stability and scale of western Europe's post-Columbian global networks of trade, migration, and cultural exchange differed qualitatively enough to count as the first stirrings of a globalization that continues to this day."--Choice
"[Globalization] stands out in the proliferation of textbooks and surveys on world history and globalization. It is a concise and, especially noteworthy, a precise essay on the time and place of globalization. . . . [T]his is a quick and intelligent little book."--Michael Geyer, H-Net
"[Osterhammel and Petersson] have produced a short and extremely helpful introduction to the history of globalization. . . . [The book] rightly tries to reach far beyond the more narrow confines of economic history . . . [to] draw on migration history, the history of slavery and of empires, and . . . international relations theory."--Harold James, International History Review
"This brief book provides an easy-to-read, well-organized addition to the globalization debate that offers a cogent analysis of the macroprocess by elucidating the long and uneven global developments that have brought us to the current era."--Colin Rowan, Journal of World History
"In this crisp account, two historians examine the long roots of globalization. . . . Scholars of world history will gain a great deal from this lucid, jargon-free analysis of globalization that is in many ways a most welcomed update of William H. McNeill's The Global Condition."--The Historian
"This excellent short book by German historians Jürgen Osterhammel and Niels P. Peteresson provides a fascinating, accessible sketch of the development of globalization. The authors bridge the gap between academic historians and general readers."--getAbstract
Edited Books by Niels P Petersson
Papers by Niels P Petersson
strategy of Ocean Steam Ship Company (later Ocean Transport &
Trading), one of the United Kingdom’s leading shipping firms.
The time under review is the 1970s, a period of rapid and
disruptive change for the shipping industry and of considerable
difficulties for the UK economy. As a result of uncertainty
over the development of the shipping industry in general, and
Ocean’s business in particular, managing staff numbers and
career opportunities became key elements of the company’s
overall business strategy during these years. The article also
examines the changing objectives of that strategy, the means
by which these objectives were pursued, and the external constraints
under which these objectives had to take place. It argues
that Ocean found itself privileging the requirements of running
a “people business” over other strategic concerns and that
external constraints prevented the firm from pursuing theoretically
more appropriate strategies, such as increased use of
outsourcing and extricating itself from its UK-based, human
resource intensive business.
But is this much-discussed phenomenon really an invention of modern times? In this work, Jürgen Osterhammel and Niels Petersson make the case that globalization is not so new, after all. Arguing that the world did not turn "global" overnight, the book traces the emergence of globalization over the past seven or eight centuries. In fact, the authors write, the phenomenon can be traced back to early modern large-scale trading, for example, the silk trade between China and the Mediterranean region, the shipping routes between the Arabian Peninsula and India, and the more frequently traveled caravan routes of the Near East and North Africa--all conduits for people, goods, coins, artwork, and ideas.
Osterhammel and Petersson argue that the period from 1750 to 1880--an era characterized by the development of free trade and the long-distance impact of the industrial revolution--represented an important phase in the globalization phenomenon. Moreover, they demonstrate how globalization in the mid-twentieth century opened up the prospect of global destruction though nuclear war and ecological catastrophe. In the end, the authors write, today's globalization is part of a long-running transformation and has not ushered in a "global age" radically different from anything that came before.
This book will appeal to historians, economists, and anyone in the social sciences who is interested in the historical emergence of globalization.
Jürgen Osterhammel is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Konstanz. He has published on modern Chinese history, imperialism, and the theory of history. Niels P. Petersson is Senior Lecturer in History at Sheffield Hallam University and has published on imperialism and economic history.
Reviews:
"Jürgen Osterhammel and Niels P. Petersson argue that . . . globalization has been long under way. While civilizations have always interacted, the stability and scale of western Europe's post-Columbian global networks of trade, migration, and cultural exchange differed qualitatively enough to count as the first stirrings of a globalization that continues to this day."--Choice
"[Globalization] stands out in the proliferation of textbooks and surveys on world history and globalization. It is a concise and, especially noteworthy, a precise essay on the time and place of globalization. . . . [T]his is a quick and intelligent little book."--Michael Geyer, H-Net
"[Osterhammel and Petersson] have produced a short and extremely helpful introduction to the history of globalization. . . . [The book] rightly tries to reach far beyond the more narrow confines of economic history . . . [to] draw on migration history, the history of slavery and of empires, and . . . international relations theory."--Harold James, International History Review
"This brief book provides an easy-to-read, well-organized addition to the globalization debate that offers a cogent analysis of the macroprocess by elucidating the long and uneven global developments that have brought us to the current era."--Colin Rowan, Journal of World History
"In this crisp account, two historians examine the long roots of globalization. . . . Scholars of world history will gain a great deal from this lucid, jargon-free analysis of globalization that is in many ways a most welcomed update of William H. McNeill's The Global Condition."--The Historian
"This excellent short book by German historians Jürgen Osterhammel and Niels P. Peteresson provides a fascinating, accessible sketch of the development of globalization. The authors bridge the gap between academic historians and general readers."--getAbstract
strategy of Ocean Steam Ship Company (later Ocean Transport &
Trading), one of the United Kingdom’s leading shipping firms.
The time under review is the 1970s, a period of rapid and
disruptive change for the shipping industry and of considerable
difficulties for the UK economy. As a result of uncertainty
over the development of the shipping industry in general, and
Ocean’s business in particular, managing staff numbers and
career opportunities became key elements of the company’s
overall business strategy during these years. The article also
examines the changing objectives of that strategy, the means
by which these objectives were pursued, and the external constraints
under which these objectives had to take place. It argues
that Ocean found itself privileging the requirements of running
a “people business” over other strategic concerns and that
external constraints prevented the firm from pursuing theoretically
more appropriate strategies, such as increased use of
outsourcing and extricating itself from its UK-based, human
resource intensive business.