Amiya Kumar Bagchi

Perilous Passage

Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital

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Produktbeschreibung

In this innovative and ambitious global history, distinguished economic historian Amiya Kumar Bagchi traces the global history of human change and survival under the sway of capitalism since the voyages of Columbus. Writing with extraordinary range and depth, he offers a critical analysis of the history and human costs and consequences of development in Europe and North America, and in major regions such as India, China, Japan, and Africa. Bagchi critically characterizes the emergence and operation of capitalism as a system driven by wars over resources and markets rather than one that genuinely operates on the principle of free markets. His unflinching examination of the human toll-in the periphery as well in the core nations-includes not only economic processes and issues of inequality within and among nations, but also the intertwining of economics and war-making on a world scale. Bagchi's compelling vision will change the ways in which we think about many of the largest issues in the world history and development over the past 500 years.

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Produktdetails

• World Social Change
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780742539211
• ISBN-10: 0742539210
• Artikelnr.: 23542050

Autorenporträt

By Amiya Kumar Bagchi

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Conceptual Issues: Human Development and Capitalist Growth Chapter
1: The History of Human Development as the Subject of History Chapter 2:
The Construction of the European Miracle Chapter 3: Profit Seeking under
Actually Existing Capitalism and Human Development Part II: Capitalist
Competition and Human Development in Europe Chapter 4: Combat for Dominance
Among the Western European Countries Since the Sixteenth Century Chapter 5:
Population Growth and Mortality Between the Sixteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries: A First Look Chapter 6: The Netherlands: Rise and Fall of a
Hegemonic Power Chapter 7: The Delayed Transition of Europe and North
America to a Low-Mortality Regime Chapter 8: Literacy in Western Europe
Since the Sixteenth Century Part III: Non-European Peoples in the Age of
Emergence of European Dominance Chapter 9: Economic Development and the
Quality of Life in China Between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Chapter 10: India under Mughal Rule and After Chapter 11: Conducting Trade
in Asia Before and After the European Advent Chapter 12: Reconsidering
Japanese Exceptionalism Chapter 13: Capitalist Competition, Colonialism,
and the Physical Well-Being of Non-European Peoples Chapter 14: The
Civilizing Mission and Racialization: From the Native Americans to the
Asians Chapter 15: The Civilizing Mission in Lands Taken by the European
Settlers from the Original Inhabitants Chapter 16: Intercontinental
Resource Flows Sustaining the Ascent of the European Powers Chapter 17:
Colonial Tribute and Profits, 1870s Onward Chapter 18: Demographic
Disasters in the Colonies and Semi-Colonies in the High Noon of European
Colonialism Part IV: The Twentieth Century: Anti-Systematic Struggles,
Wars, and Challenges to Global Capital Chapter 19: Setting the Stage for
Megawars Chapter 20: Revolution, Nazism, Japanese Militarism and the Second
World War Chapter 21: Imperialism and Wars in the Late Twentieth Century
Chapter 22: Capitalism and Uneven Development in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 23: Destruction and Renewal in the Global Order of Imperialism and
Neoliberalism Chapter 24: Contradictions, Challenges, and Resistance