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The subject matter of this chapter is so wide-ranging that a single book will not cover it. But there are two formats you should find useful. First are those that cover global human history and the development of societies. Noel Cowen’s (2001) Global History: A Short Overview (Cambridge: Polity) is a well-written, concise, yet comprehensive account which assumes no specialist knowledge. Bruce Mazlish’s (2006) The New Global History (London: Routledge) traces global history and globalization processes over the long term, linking historical and sociological approaches.

Second are those books that deal with current theories and debates on globalization. You could try Manfred B. Steger’s (2017) Globalization: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press) or George Ritzer and Paul Dean’s (2015) Globalization: A Basic Text (2nd edn, Oxford: Wiley Blackwell), which covers global governance and other key aspects of the main debates. Luke Martell’s (2017) Sociology of Globalization (2nd edn, Cambridge: Polity) is a wide-ranging review.

Paul Hirst, Grahame Thompson and Simon Bromley’s (2009) Globalization in Question (3rd edn, Cambridge: Polity) provides an essential critique. Paul Hopper’s (2007) Understanding Cultural Globalization (Cambridge: Polity) does exactly what it says, and Thomas G. Weiss’s (2013) Global Governance: Why? What? Whither? (Cambridge: Polity) is a lively discussion of this subject. Collectively these three cover some key economic, cultural and political aspects of globalization.

The Globalization Reader (2020) (6th edn, ed. Frank J. Lechter and John Boli, Chichester: Wiley) is a very comprehensive collection covering a broad range of subjects, and A Dictionary of World History (2006) (2nd edn, Oxford: Oxford University Press) is a useful resource.