Historian Ira Berlin has called members of these communities Atlantic Creoles because of their connections to different African and European social and political networks. ... Various precolonial African social orders had towns and little urban areas. However even in these social orders, the vast majority were occupied with horticulture in provincial towns or residences. ... These progressions frequently tested existing qualities, convictions, and social practices (EA). ... This battle over evaluating highlights the difficulties confronted by poor nations in an undeniably worldwide business s...

• Word Count: 2178
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Assigned third-world economy status, dependent upon the world market, and caught amid social and political wars, Africa has not adapted well to the changes thrust upon it by colonial rule. ... The economy's reliance on the world market is an important economic effect of colonialism, as are the new social and demographic changes effected by Africa's incorporation into the global economy. ... The commercialization of commodities has attached specific money values to work or objects that had previously been for social use, and without ownership rights. ... The colonial era introduced s...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Assigned third-world economy status, dependent upon the world market, and caught amid social and political wars, Africa has not adapted well to the changes thrust upon it by colonial rule. ... The economy's reliance on the world market is an important economic effect of colonialism, as are the new social and demographic changes effected by Africa's incorporation into the global economy. ... The commercialization of commodities has attached specific money values to work or objects that had previously been for social use, and without ownership rights. ... The colonial era introduced s...

• Word Count: 917
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate

Globalization is essentially a process by which an ever tightening network of ties that cut across national political boundaries connects communities in a single, interdependent whole, a shrinking world where local differences are steadily eroded and subsumed within a massive global social order (Mowforth and Munt, 1998: 12). ... The essay submits that tourism and globalization may be argued to be a deadly mix for indigenous peoples or host communities due to the negative impacts it has brought about such as commodification and erosion of culture, loss of cultural identity, social problems suc...

• Word Count: 1995
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate