Globalizations, global histories, and historical globalizations / Barry K. Gills and William R. ThompsonGlobalizing history and historicizing globalization / Jerry H. Bentley -- The global animus : in the tracks of historical consciousness / Roland Robertson and David Inglis -- Civilizing processes and international societies / Andrew Linklater -- Globalizations / David Wilkinson -- The big collapse / Claudio Cioffi-Revilla -- [Re]peripheralization, [re]incorporation, frontiers and non-state societies / Thomas D. Hall -- Growth/decline phases and semi-peripheral development in the ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian world-systems / Christopher Chase-Dunn, Daniel Pasciuti, Alexis Alvarez, and Thomas D. Hall -- Early Iron Age economic expansion and contraction revisited / Andre Gunder Frank and William R. Thompson -- Dark ages / Sing C. Chew -- Three steps in globalization / Joachim Karl Rennstich -- Globalization began in 1571 / Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giráldez -- Colonies in a globalizing economy, 1815-1948 / Patrick Karl O'Brien.