Description
Book SynopsisRe-Envisioning Global Development offers an original conceptualisation of capitalist development from its origins to the present day.
Most approaches to understanding contemporary development assume that industrial capitalism was achieved through a process of nationally organised economic growth, and that in recent years its organisation has become increasingly trans-local or global. However, Halperin shows that nationally organised economic growth has rarely been the case it has only recently come to characterise a few countries and for only a few decades.
This innovative text elaborates an alternative ontology and way of thinking about global development during the last two centuries one linked, not to nations and regions, but to a set of essentially trans-national relations and connections. It argues that capitalist development has, everywhere and from the start, involvednot whole nations or societiesbut only sectors or geographical areas within states. By bringing
Table of Contents
1. Global Development 2. The Origins and Development of Capitalism 3. Industrialization and the Expansion of Capital: Core and Periphery Re-Defined 4. City States and Nationalism 5. The Imperial Historic Bloc of the Nineteenth Century 6. The System Unravels: Contraction, Conflict and Social Revolution 7. The Post-World War II Interregnum 8. Globalization Redux
