Abstract

Comparing the rhetoric of global unity common in the 1920s and early 1930s with the rhetoric of globalization today, Pemberton (politics and international relations, University of New South Wales) articulates the faith in technology and scientific progress underlying much of the rhetoric's persuasive force. The ideological implications, and political manipulations that follow, are also detailed. These are contrasted with the opposing views, in the past and the present, which have emphasized and do emphasize multiplicity and many-ness. c. Book News Inc.