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"This research guide provides access to resources that define and analyze the significance of internationalization in global economic development, the history and elements of business globalization, as well as current trends."

Filled with commentary from historians, activists, entrepreneurs, and economists—including Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz—the series also takes viewers to developing nations around the world, where farmers, merchants, laborers, and those hungry for work face the best and the worst of globalization every day. Each episode presents startling juxtapositions of affluence and poverty, euphoria and anxiety, providing fertile ground for informed, in-depth discussion.

Learn about European imperialism in the 19th century in Asia and Africa.