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First day of the @WEHC2018! Currently at the opening plenary where Sevket Pamuk is speaking on understudied aspects of past waves of globalisation. #wehc2018

Pamuk: we need to pay more attention to the local, and the interaction between the local and the global. Outcomes of globalisation at local level varied considerably. #WEHC2018

Pamuk: changes in institutions caused by globalisation may be more important than trade and capital flows most commonly studied. #WEHC2018

Pamuk: we need to focus on the uneven impact of globalisation and it's distributional outcomes. #WEHC2018

Pamuk: long-distance exchanges before 1500 were not limited to trade but included transfer of diseases, technologies, ideas and institutions #WEHC2018

Pamuk: one good example is that coins were very similar across Eurasia before 1500 #WEHC2018

Pamuk: the indirect impact of globalisation before the modern era was important, especially the rise of merchant classes and their influence #WEHC2018

Pamuk: 19th century globalisation provided positive results in the aggregate but outcomes were uneven and were not beneficial for all. #WEHC2018

Pamuk: 19th century globalisation created it's own politics of backlash. #WEHC2018