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Informationen zum Autor By Amiya Kumar Bagchi Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Traces the global history of human change and survival under the sway of capitalism since the voyages of Columbus. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Conceptual Issues: Human Development and Capitalist GrowthChapter 1: The History of Human Development as the Subject of HistoryChapter 2: The Construction of the European MiracleChapter 3: Profit Seeking under Actually Existing Capitalism and Human DevelopmentPart II: Capitalist Competition and Human Development in EuropeChapter 4: Combat for Dominance Among the Western European Countries Since the Sixteenth CenturyChapter 5: Population Growth and Mortality Between the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A First LookChapter 6: The Netherlands: Rise and Fall of a Hegemonic PowerChapter 7: The Delayed Transition of Europe and North America to a Low-Mortality RegimeChapter 8: Literacy in Western Europe Since the Sixteenth CenturyPart III: Non-European Peoples in the Age of Emergence of European DominanceChapter 9: Economic Development and the Quality of Life in China Between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth CenturiesChapter 10: India under Mughal Rule and AfterChapter 11: Conducting Trade in Asia Before and After the European AdventChapter 12: Reconsidering Japanese ExceptionalismChapter 13: Capitalist Competition, Colonialism, and the Physical Well-Being of Non-European PeoplesChapter 14: The Civilizing Mission and Racialization: From the Native Americans to the AsiansChapter 15: The Civilizing Mission in Lands Taken by the European Settlers from the Original InhabitantsChapter 16: Intercontinental Resource Flows Sustaining the Ascent of the European PowersChapter 17: Colonial Tribute and Profits, 1870s OnwardChapter 18: Demographic Disasters in the Colonies and Semi-Colonies in the High Noon of European ColonialismPart IV: The Twentieth Century: Anti-Systematic Struggles, Wars, and Challenges to Global CapitalChapter 19: Setting the Stage for MegawarsChapter 20: Revolution, Nazism, Japanese Militarism and the Second World WarChapter 21: Imperialism and Wars in the Late Twentieth CenturyChapter 22: Capitalism and Uneven Development in the Twentieth CenturyChapter 23: Destruction and Renewal in the Global Order of Imperialism and NeoliberalismChapter 24: Contradictions, Challenges, and Resistance...
