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Employs the materio-spatial logic of new historical materialism to analyze the technological, financial, political, ideological, & social organizational innovations that maintained successful campaigns to dominate world trade in Portugal, Holland, Great Britain, Japan, & the US. Consideration is given to how the rise of each national economy contributed to globalization. Since the institutions that generate strategies to produce technological innovations are social, interactions between materio-spatial opportunities & constraints are highlighted to explain how matter, space, & technology shaped globalization. An analysis of increasingly efficient transport systems over greater distances is used to challenge the notion that globalization is recent, unique, & "deterritorialized." The various ways each nation expanded the then prevailing mode of heavy industry are explored in order to develop a synthetic model of national ascent to world trade dominance. Attention is also given to how hegemonic competition transforms world trade patterns; & the impact of weight, bulk, raw materials, & distance structure on social organization & national development. The future of global economies is discussed. References. J. Lindroth