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... has been a recent acceleration. The final theory is that globalization is a recent phenomenon associated with post-industrialization, post-modernism and disorganisation of capitalism. This book takes the position that some measure of globalization has always existed but has been more apparent at different stages in history for example, imperial expansions, trading or pillaging and the spread of religion. However, during the European middle ages the spread of Western society came to a relative standstill as countries focused on their own development and guarding their territory was an important aspect of life. The spread of globalization increased in the 15th and 16th centuries when it was accepted that humanity inhabited the globe. Globalization could not become a true concept until the inhabitants of Eurasia-Africa, the Americas and Australia recognised each other's existence. Waters (1995) tells us that globalization is the direct consequence of the expansion of European culture across the globe via settlement, colonization and the ...