Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital

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