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Neil Oliver (born 21 February 1967) [citation needed] is a Scottish television presenter and author. [2] He has presented several documentary series on archaeology and history, including A History of Scotland, Vikings and Coast. He is also an author of popular history books and historical fiction.
Neil Oliver discovers the perfect Coast vehicle to gad about in, while Alice Garner visits a small coastal chapel in Prevelly to explore its link to a wartime history of resistance on Crete. Finally Brendan Moar journeys to Augusta to expose the strength of a great pioneer, and her legacy as a world-class botanical collector.
The historical origins of globalization (also known as historical globalization) are the subject of ongoing debate. Though many scholars situate the origins of globalization in the modern era (around the 19th century ), others regard it as a phenomenon with a long history, dating back thousands of years (a concept known as archaic globalization ).
World history or global history as a field of historical study examines history from a global perspective. It emerged centuries ago; some leading practitioners are Voltaire (1694–1778), Hegel (1770–1831), Karl Marx (1818–1883), Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), and Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975). The field became much more active (in terms ...
Presented by Neil Oliver, A History of Scotland is a television series first broadcast in November 2008 on BBC One Scotland and later shown UK-wide on BBC Two during January 2009. [1] The second series began on BBC One Scotland in early November 2009, with transmission at a later point on network BBC Two .
"First globalization" is a phrase used by economists to describe the world's first major period of globalization of trade and finance, which took place between 1870 and 1914. The "second globalization" began in 1944 and ended in 1971. This led to the third era of globalization, which began in 1989 and ended around the early 2020s. [1]
A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005) [23] Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development (2006) introduction to Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (2008) Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom (2009) Social Justice and the City: Revised Edition (2009) A Companion to Marx's Capital (2010)
Two Men in a Trench follows Pollard and Oliver across the British Isles, their research taking them to various battles across the United Kingdom. The battles of Flodden, Barnet and Shrewsbury, as well as the Siege of Newark and the Defence of Inchkeith, are among the conflicts studied by the duo in their first series.