Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction Kenneth Button and Henry Vega PART I PRIOR PHASES OF GLOBALIZATION 1. David S. Jacks (2006), 'What Drove 19th Century Commodity Market Integration?' 2. David S. Jacks, Christopher M. Meissner and Dennis Novy (2010), 'Trade Costs in the First Wave of Globalization' 3. Robert M. Schwartz (2010), 'Rail Transport, Agrarian Crisis, and the Restructuring of Agriculture: France and Great Britain Confront Globalization, 1860 - 1900' 4. Antoni Estevadeordal, Brian Frantz and Alan M. Taylor (2003), 'The Rise and Fall of World Trade, 1870 - 1939' 5. A.M. Ramsay (1925), 'The Speed of the Roman Imperial Post' PART II THE ROLE OF TRANSPORT IN EMPIRE BUILDING 6. Paul Krugman and Anthony J. Venables (1995), 'Globalization and the Inequality of Nations' 7. Richard D. Knowles (2006), 'Transport Shaping Space: Differential Collapse in Time-Space' PART III TRANSPORT AND TRADE IN RECENT GLOBALIZATION 8. Anthony J. Venables (1999), 'Fragmentation and Multinational Production' 9. David Hummels (2007), 'Transportation Costs and International Trade in the Second Era of Globalization' 10. Robert J. McCalla, Brian Slack and Claude Comtois (2004), 'Dealing with Globalisation at the Regional and Local Level: The Case of Contemporary Containerization' 11. Cristina Capineri and Thomas R. Leinbach (2004), 'Globalization, E-economy and Trade' 12. Joseph Szyliowicz and Paul Viotti (1997), 'Dilemmas of Transportation Security' PART IV THE ROLE OF THE SUPPLY-CHAIN LOGISTICS 13. Antje Burmeister and Kristian Colletis-Wahl (1997), 'Proximity in Production Networks: The Circulatory Dimension' 14. Christian Geisler Asmussen, Torben Pedersen and Charles Dhanaraj (2009), 'Host-Country Environment and Subsidiary Competence: Extending the Diamond Network Model' 15. Markus Hesse (2007), 'The System of Flows and the Restructuring of Space Elements of a Geography of Distribution' 16. Paul Ciccantell and David A. Smith (2009), 'Rethinking Global Commodity Chains: Integrating Extraction, Transport, and Manufacturing' PART V GLOBALIZATION, TRANSPORT AND THE ENVIRONMENT 17. Danielle B. van Veen-Groot and Peter Nijkamp (1999), 'Globalisation, Transport and the Environment: New Perspectives for Ecological Economics' 18. Peter Nijkamp (2003), 'Globalization, International Transport and the Global Environment: A Research and Policy Challenge' 19. A.A.J. Nederveen, J.W. Konings and J.A. Stoop (2003), 'Globalization, International Transport and the Global Environment: Technological Innovation, Policy Making and the Reduction of Transportation Emissions' 20. Xander Olsthoorn (2003), 'Implications of Globalization for CO2 Emissions from Transport' PART VI MARKET LIBERALIZATION AND "OPEN SKIES" IN THE AIR 21. Keith G. Debbage (1994), 'The International Airline Industry: Globalization, Regulation and Strategic Alliances' 22. Peter Adey, Lucy Budd and Phil Hubbard (2007), 'Flying Lessons: Exploring the Social and Cultural Geographies of Global Air Travel' 23. Alex Cosmas, Peter Belobaba and William Swelbar (2010), 'The Effects of Open Skies Agreements on Transatlantic Air Service Levels' 24. Robert Humbertson and Agam Sinha (2009), 'Realising the Global Next-Generation Air Transportation System' 25. A. Elek, C. Findlay, P. Hooper and T. Warren (1999), '"Open Skies" or Open Clubs? New Issues for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation' 26. Andrew R. Goetz and Brian Graham (2004), 'Air Transport Globalization, Liberalization and Sustainability: Post-2001 Policy Dynamics in the United States and Europe' PART VII TRANSPORT AND GLOBAL CITIES 27. Sung-Woo Lee, Dong-Wook Song and Cesar Ducruet (2008), 'A Tale of Asia's World Ports: The Spatial Evolution in Global Hub Port Cities' 28. Germa Bel and Xavier Fageda (2008), 'Getting There Fast: Globalization, Intercontinental Flights and Location of Headquarters' 29. Julie Cidell (2006), 'Air Transportation, Airports, and the Discourses and Practices of Globalization' 30