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Global History: A View from the South
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Artikel-Nr:
9781906387969
Veröffentl:
2010
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.11.2010
Seiten:
200
Autor:
Samir Amin
Gewicht:
208 g
Format:
195x126x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Samir Amin is an economist, the director of Forum du Tiers Monde (Third World Forum) in Dakar, Senegal, and the chair of the World Forum for Alternatives. He is one of the best-known thinkers of his generation, both in development theoryand in the relativistic-cultural critique of the social sciences. "
Responding to the need to take a fresh look at world history, hitherto dominated by Eurocentric ideologues and historians in their attempt to justify the nature and character of modern capitalism, Samir Amin looks in this book at the ancient world system and how it has influenced the development of the modern world. He analyses the origin and nature of modern globalization and the challenges it presents in achieving socialism and examines the role played by Central Asia in determining the course of world history as well as the different roads taken by Europe and China. The book looks closely at a theme that has been primordial to his contribution to political and economic thought: the question of unequal development.
Introduction 1. The ancient world system versus the modern capitalist world systems 2. The role of central Asia in the ancient tributary system 3. Capitalism and the global system 4. History conceived as an eternal cycle review 5. Contrasting Europe and the Chinese world; accumulation through dispossession 6. Russia in the global system, geography or history Notes Index