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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.
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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 .
Held and his co-writers' definition of globalization in that same book as "transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions—assessed in terms of their extensity, intensity, velocity and impact—generating transcontinental or inter-regional flows" was called "probably the most widely-cited definition" in the ...
"World history is not a thing, but an activity, and various physical forms of expression such as lectures, books, journal papers and classroom lessons are criteria for it. An historian, for instance, may point to a book and say 'that's a world history', even if they cannot elucidate why.
A tie-in book, Not Forgotten, written by Neil Oliver, was published by Hodder & Stoughton. Three additional episodes were subsequently produced: Shot at Dawn, examining the stories of men shot for desertion and cowardice (first aired on 2 January 2007).
Pollard has written numerous papers and articles on archaeology (eg. as editor of Journal of Conflict Archaeology) and military history and edited several books on subjects as diverse as the early prehistory of Scotland and the archaeology of death. Along with Neil Oliver he wrote the two books accompanying the Two Men in a Trench programmes. [6]
His 1992 definition of globalization as "the compression of the world and the intensification of the consciousness of the world as a whole" [1] has been credited as the first ever definition of globalization, [2] though a more detailed analysis of the history of this term indicates it has many authors. [3]