Perilous Passage : Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital
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 genuine
History
1 online resource (422 pages)
9781461705154, 9780742539211, 9780742539204, 1461705150, 0742539210, 0742539202
852759401
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 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 Look6. 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 Exceptionalism13. 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 Capital19. 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; References; Index; About the Author
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