Vincent Capdepuy is author of 50 histories of globalization and Le Monde ou rien. He says globalization is the process of “creating the world” The notion of world does not only apply to global space, to the entire earth, but also to smaller, more partial spaces.
Globalization was my second area of research and I immediately had the idea of taking economic history in the opposite direction, he says. The idea of making a world, which we find a lot in the imperial dimension, is on the other hand ancient.