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"The modern world exists in a state of cultural, political, and economic globalisation. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries two nations, Portugal and Spain, pioneered the European discovery of sea routes that were the first channels of interaction between all of the world's continents, thus beginning the process of globalisation in which we all live today. "

Nearly nine hundred images taken from 1894 to 1896 by the World's Transportation Commission during that last great experimentation with globalisation. And look how that ended...