Re-Envisioning Global Development: A Horizontal Perspective

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Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
List of tables and figures......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Introduction: The ‘Victorian Edifice’ of conventional European historiography......Page 18
I. Global development as western modernity: Foundation myths......Page 21
European expansion......Page 22
The European discoveries......Page 24
The European revolutions......Page 25
II. Post-World War II ‘development’ theory: variations on the themes of western modernity and national development......Page 28
Core and periphery......Page 29
World systems theory......Page 32
Post-colonial theory and subaltern studies......Page 36
III. Re-envisioning global development......Page 40
The transnational elite......Page 43
The organization of the study......Page 46
2. The origins and development of capitalism......Page 49
I. Origins......Page 50
Feudal ‘crisis’ and transition......Page 51
II. Agrarian revolution (the ‘Brenner Thesis’)?......Page 56
1. Large farms and ‘free labour’......Page 58
2. Relative versus absolute surplus value production......Page 59
3. Increased labour productivity and industrialization......Page 61
III. The integration of Europe into the Asian-centred trading system......Page 63
The long sixteenth century (1450–1600)......Page 64
Capitalism and mercantilism......Page 67
The domain of capitalism......Page 68
Monopoly versus markets......Page 69
The last frontier: freeing capital from local economies......Page 70
The end of the ‘moral economy’......Page 73
Conclusions......Page 76
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Industrialization and the expansion of capital: core and periphery redefined......Page 78
I. The ‘Industrial Revolution’......Page 79
The deregulation of markets......Page 81
Industrial concentration and production for export......Page 83
The increased exploitation of labour......Page 85
II. Industrial production and the expansion of capital......Page 89
Mass mobilization for war and its implications for industrial production......Page 90
The social logic of industrial capitalist expansion......Page 93
The ‘class succession’ thesis and the capitalist bourgeoisie......Page 96
Dependent and independent development......Page 100
Conclusions......Page 107
4. City states and nationalism......Page 108
I. The nation state and the city state: a comparison......Page 109
City states......Page 114
II. The aristocratic/urban alliance......Page 118
III. State formation in Europe I: imperial expansion at home......Page 120
Imperial, colonial and national states......Page 123
IV. Imperial expansion abroad......Page 125
V. State formation in Europe II: nationalism......Page 129
Conclusions......Page 132
5. The imperial ‘historic bloc’ of the nineteenth century......Page 134
I. Eurasian expansion, crisis and war......Page 135
Sixteenth century
Eurasian expansion and global integration......Page 136
Seventeenth and eighteenth century crises and wars in Europe and Asia......Page 138
II. The imperial ‘historic bloc’......Page 140
Military power......Page 146
Collaboration......Page 148
Transnational classes......Page 152
III. Core and periphery......Page 155
Turning points......Page 156
Conclusions......Page 163
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The system unravels: contraction, conflict and social revolution......Page 164
I. Social conflict, 1815–1914......Page 165
The Great Depression, 1873–1886......Page 168
Strikes......Page 170
Imperialist rivalries......Page 176
II. The system unravels, 1914–1945......Page 177
The Cold War begins, 1917–1945......Page 179
Retrenchment and counter-revolution......Page 182
‘Appeasement’......Page 186
Conclusion......Page 189
7. The post-World War II interregnum......Page 190
I. The ‘advanced’ world: social revolution and the nationalization of capital......Page 191
II. The ‘Third World’: the reproduction of dualism......Page 198
Latin America......Page 199
The Middle East......Page 202
The containment of ‘national capitalism’......Page 205
The containment of socialism and communism......Page 207
The development project......Page 209
The transnational elite: Intra-elite conflict and compromise in the Interregnum......Page 210
Conclusion......Page 214
8. Globalization redux......Page 216
I. Industrialization without ‘development’......Page 217
II. Denationalizing capital: the end of the ‘first’ and ‘second’ worlds......Page 221
The ‘crisis’ of capitalism and the end of the ‘first’ world......Page 222
The end of the ‘second world’......Page 227
III. Post-Keynesian accumulation strategies: Reintegrating the three worlds......Page 229
Post-Keynesian spatial policies: the re-emergence of global city regions and city states......Page 233
Global City Regions......Page 234
Global cities......Page 235
Conclusions: re-envisioning ‘development’......Page 238
Notes......Page 243
References......Page 276
Index......Page 315