The New Global Merchants of Light

Abstract

Bruce Mazlish reflects on the transition of humanity from modernity to globalization.

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1. 1

   Professor Wolf Schafer of the University of NY at Stony Brook is doing the best work exploring this problem from both sides.

2. 2

   Bacon also speaks of those who direct new experiments of a “higher light” (p. 136). Cf. Gombrich (1998).

3. 3

   In my book, The Uncertain Sciences (Yale 1998; paperback with new introduction, Transaction Press, 2007) I go into much more detail on Francis Bacon and seventeenth century science.

4. 4

   Robert Kaplan in his book The Empire of Geography (2012) comes close to taking this position, although giving lip service to human activity.

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   Global Inc: An Atlas of the Multinational Corporation by Medard Gabel and Henry Bruner. A project of the New Global History Initiative, the World Game Institute, and o.s.Earth. The conference behind this Atlas also resulted in a book, Leviathans: Multinational Corporations and the New Global History.

Published Online: 2013-04-18