Stephen G. Bunker (1944-2005) was a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Paul S. Ciccantell is an associate professor of sociology at Western Michigan University.

There is much to merit to the authors' contribution. -- Pierre Desrochers Historical Geography 2007

• List of Figures and TablesPreface: Finding the Global in the LocalChapter 1. Matter, Space, Time, and Globalization: An IntroductionChapter 2. Globalizing Economies of Scale in the Sequence of Amazonian Extractive SystemsChapter 3. Between Nature and Society: How Technology Drives GlobalizationChapter 4. Bulky Goods and Industrial Organization in Early CapitalismChapter 5. From Wood to Steel: British-American Interdependent Expansion across the Atlantic and around the GlobeChapter 6. Raw Materials and Transport in the Economic Ascendancy of JapanChapter 7. ConclusionReferencesIndex

Stephen G. Bunker (1944-2005) was a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Paul S. Ciccantell is an associate professor of sociology at Western Michigan University.

There is much to merit to the authors' contribution. -- Pierre Desrochers Historical Geography 2007

• List of Figures and TablesPreface: Finding the Global in the LocalChapter 1. Matter, Space, Time, and Globalization: An IntroductionChapter 2. Globalizing Economies of Scale in the Sequence of Amazonian Extractive SystemsChapter 3. Between Nature and Society: How Technology Drives GlobalizationChapter 4. Bulky Goods and Industrial Organization in Early CapitalismChapter 5. From Wood to Steel: British-American Interdependent Expansion across the Atlantic and around the GlobeChapter 6. Raw Materials and Transport in the Economic Ascendancy of JapanChapter 7. ConclusionReferencesIndex

Stephen G. Bunker (1944-2005) was a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Paul S. Ciccantell is an associate professor of sociology at Western Michigan University.

There is much to merit to the authors' contribution. -- Pierre Desrochers Historical Geography 2007

• List of Figures and TablesPreface: Finding the Global in the LocalChapter 1. Matter, Space, Time, and Globalization: An IntroductionChapter 2. Globalizing Economies of Scale in the Sequence of Amazonian Extractive SystemsChapter 3. Between Nature and Society: How Technology Drives GlobalizationChapter 4. Bulky Goods and Industrial Organization in Early CapitalismChapter 5. From Wood to Steel: British-American Interdependent Expansion across the Atlantic and around the GlobeChapter 6. Raw Materials and Transport in the Economic Ascendancy of JapanChapter 7. ConclusionReferencesIndex