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In The Dawn of an Imperfect Globalization - Tommaso Detti, Bruno Bongiovanni and Paul Ginsborg stress the numerous themes that emerge over the long term across the planet and the multiple and distinctive historiographical reflections that are present in Christopher A. Bayly’s The Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914. What emerges clearly is the unitary but dissimilar experience of all the continents, and, for this very reason, the totalizing dynamics of a process, not without conflicts, that has led to what appears sometimes as an apparently completed globalization, sometimes as a clamorous failure, but, over time, always imperfect.

Key words: World history, Global History, Globalization.
Parole chiave: World history, Storia globale, Globalizzazione.

The introduction to the thematic section presents the cross-cutting themes addressed in the following papers: globalisation and its impact on social and economic inequalities, social polarization, the relationship between social cohesion and global competitiveness. The presentation of three papers arising from the ongoing ‘Global Cities’ held by the author under the Spud Ph.D. of the Politecnico di Milano brings out the need for renewed attention to the recent multi-disciplinary urban transformations.

Viene ripercorsa l’esperienza del corso universitario attraverso un dialogo del docente con due studentesse: i registri usati sono quelli del "là e allora" e del "qui e ora", mediante un continuo intreccio tra ciò che è successo in un passato più o meno recente e ciò che succede nel tempo presente; la conversazione si dipana ricorsivamente tra i vincoli e le opportunità dell’esperienza (istituzionale) universitaria e l’ambito più strettamente personale ed emotivo.