Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-255) and index.
Preface: Finding the global in the local / by Stephen G. Bunker -- Matter, space, time, and globalization : an introduction -- Globalizing economies of scale in the sequence of Amazonian extractive systems -- Between nature and society : how technology drives globalization -- Bulky goods and industrial organization in early capitalism -- From wood to steel : British-American interdependent expansion across the Atlantic and around the globe -- Raw materials and transport in the economic ascendancy of Japan -- Conclusion