... and expansion of empires, the spread of Christianity, and the globalization of science. The chapter highlights the entanglement of Indigenous lifeways in the broader Atlantic world owing to violence, missionizing, commercial exchange, and Brazilian Indigenous peoples’ strategic initiatives. Mapping guaraná’s...

...This chapter argues that theories of racial capitalism originating in the field of Black Studies offer a productive method for moving beyond stereotyped imageries of climate migration. Connecting racial capitalism research to studies of the political economies of oil and globalized trade...

...With the focus on Virginia Beach’s Wave Riding Vehicles, this chapter explores a small southern surf company that became a global industry leader. The chapter also addresses the rise of water parks in the Sun Belt and the improving technology of wave pools as well as the growing importance of surf...

...This chapter discusses the two problems with the concept of globalization, first the “global,” and second the “-ization.” The implication of the first is that a system of connection has penetrated the entire globe, and the implication of the second is that it is doing so now...

... intervention to address the southern agricultural crisis made their way into mainstream thinking after the 1960s. Despite rising unemployment rates resulting from deindustrialization and globalization, economic policy in the 1980s and 1990s emphasized spending cuts, deregulation of businesses, and evisceration...

...This chapter summarizes how responses to the mass displacement of agricultural workers in the 1960s rural South established precedents for the treatment of workers who lost their jobs to deindustrialization and globalization in later decades. It also highlights connections between the southern...

...Engages the intersection of demographic explosion, urbanization, and globalization to offer a new vision of the historic transformation that marked the Americas and the world from the 1950s. Focuses attention on capitalist concentrations of wealth and power, the spread of social marginalization...

... States and type 2 diabetes food and eating habits Takeshi Beat domestic management of diabetes hemoglobin A1c HbA1c technoscientization of health practice triglycerides globalization local vs global processes Rose Nikolas Alexander Jeffrey culture Swidler Ann explanatory models Kleinman...

... it. As biomedicalization renders interactions between providers and patients more uncertain and more collaborative, the cultural resources that they bring to those encounters become more—not less—relevant. fasting blood glucose FBG globalization metformin biomedicalization evidence based medicine EBM International...

... of other flour mixtures and cereals beginning in 1950, along with the fast-paced globalization of food in recent years, has also contributed to this decline. At present, cornmeal in Puerto Rico is primarily used for making corn bread or sorullitos. It is also used as the base for making...

...This book examines conceptualizations of globalization that coalesced in American culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as the intersection between late realism and Progressivism. Citing Woodrow Wilson's concept of the United States as a mediating nation, which...

... and harsh segregation through the 1960s did not imply isolation and racial oppression in uniform ways for Mexicanos. Rather, as Chapters Four and Five have shown, the region’s increasing integration into national and global economic and political life at the end of the twentieth century opened new avenues...

..., political conflict, public policy decisions, class and racial tensions, migration patterns, and geographic location. This detailed case study of Memphis combines theories of globalization and place with a bit of sociological imagination to capture the complexities of one resilient city and to develop...

...The Prologue sets the scene and tone for the book by introducing readers to the work’s main character: the India-built British merchant vessel, the Edwin Fox. It then establishes the major themes of the work, explaining how it tells the story of globalization between the years 1850...

...Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 exported the United States' growing technical and environmental...

... of the state, of globalization, and of Islam. They point to a transformation in the relationship between territory and allegiance, a fundamental shift in the possibilities for sociopolitical organization. The Isma'ilis are widely scattered across the planet, but their community's institutional infrastructure...

... alternative medicine. The chapter presents an overview of the early international dissemination of chiropractic. Globalization offers opportunities for the chiropractic profession, but it must overcome a wide range of reactions from within receiving cultures. Alternative medicine National Center...

...This chapter presents an overview of the oil palm’s changing roles in global history. Beginning with the oil palm’s long history in Africa, the chapter shows how the transatlantic slave trade brought palm oil into world markets, supplying the Industrial Revolution in Europe with oil...

...The final chapter examines the era of “neoliberal globalization” beginning in the 1980s, when governments began to roll back investments in both smallholders and plantations. Many state-owned plantations underwent privatization, giving multinational firms new footholds across the tropics. Land...

...This chapter discusses the fact that many studies of globalization and cities focus on the “flattening” of the world, the homogenization of culture, and the demise of place distinctiveness. This book, however, analyzes qualities that make “place” distinctive, cumulative, durable, and meaningful...