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ISBN 10: 1461705150
ISBN 13: 9781461705154
Author: Amiya Kumar Bagchi
In this innovative and ambitious global history, distinguished economic historian Amiya Kumar Bagchi critically analyzes the processes leading to the rise of the West since the sixteenth century to its current position as the most prosperous and powerful group of nations in the world. Integrating the history of armed conflict with the history of competition for trade, investment, and markets, Bagchi explores the human consequences for people both within and outside the region. He 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. In tracing this history, he also charts what happened to the people who came under its sway during the last five centuries. Bagchi thus broadens our understanding of the nature and history of capitalism and challenges the fetishism of commodities that limits the perspective of most economic historians. The book also challenges the Eurocentrism that still underlies the conceptual framework of many mainstream historians, joining earlier narratives that chronicle the history of human beings as living persons rather than as puppets serving the abstract cause of “economic growth.” His unflinching examination of the human costs of development—not only in the colonial periphery but 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. The book also contributes to our knowledge of how and in what sequence human health has been shaped by public health care, sanitation, modern medicine, income levels and nutrition. Written with extraordinary range and depth, Perilous Passage will change the ways in which we think about many of the largest issues in world history and development.
Perilous Passage Mankind And The Global Ascendancy Of Capital 1st Table of contents:
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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