bwaber reviewed The Ages of Globalization by Jeffrey D. Sachs
A Historical Play-by-Play Focused on a Few Crucial Periods, with a bit of Economics
3 stars
This book broadly summarizes the characteristics of the different historical ages of globalization, charting some of their similarities as well as their representative innovations (technological, social, and political). I was hoping for much more analysis of the transition between these different ages, but this is largely absent from the text. Beyond that, the characterization of pre-European contact American peoples is laughably inaccurate (calling them exclusively hunter gathers is so demonstrably false - literally pick up any book/academic article on the period).