Author: Utsa Patnaik
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
ISBN: 1583678913
Size: 67.27 MB
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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A comprehensive survey of capitalism's colonialist roots and uncertain future Those who control the world’s commanding economic heights, buttressed by the theories of mainstream economists, presume that capitalism is a self-contained and self-generating system. Nothing could be further from the truth. In this pathbreaking book—winner of the Paul A. Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award—radical political economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik argue that the accumulation of capital has always required the taking of land, raw materials, and bodies from noncapitalist modes of production. They begin with a thorough debunking of mainstream economics. Then, looking at the history of capitalism, from the beginnings of colonialism half a millennium ago to today’s neoliberal regimes, they discover that, over the long haul, capitalism, in order to exist, must metastasize itself in the practice of imperialism and the immiseration of countless people. A few hundred years ago, write the Patnaiks, colonialism began to ensure vast, virtually free, markets for new products in burgeoning cities in the West. But even after slavery was generally abolished, millions of people in the Global South still fell prey to the continuing lethal exigencies of the marketplace. Even after the Second World War, when decolonization led to the end of the so-called “Golden Age of Capitalism,” neoliberal economies stepped in to reclaim the Global South, imposing drastic “austerity” measures on working people. But, say the Patnaiks, this neoliberal economy, which lives from bubble to bubble, is doomed to a protracted crisis. In its demise, we are beginning to see – finally – the transcendence of the capitalist system.
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Author: Akira Iriye
Publisher: Imprint Publications
ISBN:
Size: 72.32 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
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Evaluates the course of international relations in Asia from the close of World War I to the military intervention by Japan in Manchuria.
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Author: Richard R. Cook
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1608993361
Size: 12.18 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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"This collection of essays is committed to the belief that evangelicalism continues to have the historical assets and intellectual (hermeneutical and theological) tools able to contribute to the global church. Evangelicalism possesses assets with explanatory power to address significant theological and cultural issues arising out of the churches in the Global South. Evangelical approaches to contextualization and biblical studies can produce valuable fruit. Therefore in May 2008 over a dozen evangelical scholars (Chinese and Western) from the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan, came together to address issues of Christian and evangelical identity. The ""Inter-Cultural Theological Conversation"" was titled ""Beyond Our Past: Bible, Cultural Identity, and the Global Evangelical Movement."" This collection of papers from the conference demonstrates the value of the careful balancing of judicious appropriation of the social sciences and thorough biblical inquiry. Questions of evangelical identity in China and around the world are addressed from the disciplines of history, biblical studies, and systematic theology/contextualization."
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Author: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 16.99 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : World politics
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 14.82 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Wilhelm Busch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 17.68 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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This book seeks to lend a comprehensive history to the reign of the Tudors. This volume describes the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII in great detail, which lays the foundation for an understanding of Mary Tudor's motivations and actions as Queen.
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Author: Michael Barratt Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 31.65 MB
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 521
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Author: Nicholas Belfield Dennys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 35.89 MB
Format: PDF
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Eduardo A. Zalduendo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 58.68 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Author: Ernest Mandel
Publisher: New York : M[onthly] R[eview Press
ISBN:
Size: 48.96 MB
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Category : Competition, International
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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