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GlobalTides examines the early modern period through the lens of emerging world systems, focusing on how Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean networks created unprecedented global connections between previously isolated regions.

By tracing the flow of goods, people, ideas, and diseases across early modern trade routes, GlobalTides reveals how local developments in one region had global consequences. It shows how the early modern world system created both opportunities and devastating disruptions.

Historians and social scientists turn to GlobalTides for sophisticated analysis of early globalization processes. Each article demonstrates how early modern networks established patterns of global integration and inequality that persist today.