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Global illustrates the unique character of cross-cultural encounters in the early modern age and their influences on the development of world societies. The emergence of powerful empires around the world set in motion processes of exchange that reached across all continents: new commercial exchange networks, large-scale migration streams, worldwide biological exchanges, and transfers of knowledge.
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This work sketches out the early modern roots of globalization which have shaped the modern world. From 1400 to 1800, empire-building, trade, missionary endeavor, migration, and intellectual exploration accelerated a growing interconnectedness among world societies.
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This page is a summary of: Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age, 1400–1800, June 2010, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511780851.001.
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