Re-envisioning global development : a horizontal perspective / Sandra Halperin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halperin, Sandra, author.

Series:

Critical issues in global politics ; 4.

Critical issues in global politics ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

Economic development--History.

Economic development.

Capitalism--History.

Capitalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Re-Envisioning Global Development offers an original conceptualisation of capitalist development from its origins to the present day.Most approaches to understanding contemporary development assume that industrial capitalism was achieved through a process of nationally organised economic growth, and that in recent years its organisation has become increasingly trans-local or global. However, Halperin shows that nationally organised economic growth has rarely been the case - it has only recently come to characterise a few countries and for only a few decades. This innovative te

Contents:

Cover; HalfTitle; TitlePage; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of tables and figures; Preface; 1. Global development; Introduction: The 'Victorian Edifice' of conventional European historiography; I. Global development as western modernity: Foundation myths; European expansion; The European discoveries; The European revolutions; II. Post-World War II 'development' theory: variations on the themes of western modernity and national development; Core and periphery; World systems theory; Post-colonial theory and subaltern studies; III. Re-envisioning global development

The transnational eliteThe organization of the study; 2. The origins and development of capitalism; I. Origins; Feudal 'crisis' and transition; II. Agrarian revolution (the 'Brenner Thesis')?; 1. Large farms and 'free labour'; 2. Relative versus absolute surplus value production; 3. Increased labour productivity and industrialization; III. The integration of Europe into the Asian-centred trading system; The long sixteenth century (1450-1600); Capitalism and mercantilism; The domain of capitalism; Monopoly versus markets; The last frontier: freeing capital from local economies

The end of the 'moral economy'Conclusions; 3.Industrialization and the expansion of capital: core and periphery redefined; I. The 'Industrial Revolution'; What was the Industrial Revolution?; The deregulation of markets; Industrial concentration and production for export; The increased exploitation of labour; II. Industrial production and the expansion of capital; Mass mobilization for war and its implications for industrial production; The social logic of industrial capitalist expansion; III. Core and periphery redefined; The 'class succession' thesis and the capitalist bourgeoisie

Dependent and independent developmentConclusions; 4. City states and nationalism; I. The nation state and the city state: a comparison; City states; II. The aristocratic/urban alliance; III. State formation in Europe I: imperial expansion at home; Imperial, colonial and national states; IV. Imperial expansion abroad; V. State formation in Europe II: nationalism; Conclusions; 5. The imperial 'historic bloc' of the nineteenth century; I. Eurasian expansion, crisis and war; Sixteenth centuryEurasian expansion and global integration

Seventeenth and eighteenth century crises and wars in Europe and AsiaII. The imperial 'historic bloc'; Military power; Collaboration; Transnational classes; III. Core and periphery; Turning points; Conclusions; 6.The system unravels: contraction, conflict and social revolution; I. Social conflict, 1815-1914; The Great Depression, 1873-1886; Strikes; Imperialist rivalries; II. The system unravels, 1914-1945; The Cold War begins, 1917-1945; Retrenchment and counter-revolution; 'Appeasement'; Conclusion; 7. The post-World War II interregnum

I. The 'advanced' world: social revolution and the nationalization of capital

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-135-92804-5

0-203-62903-5

1-299-48074-8

1-135-92797-9

9780203629031

OCLC:

843198357