World Accumulation, 1492-1789 - Couverture souple

Frank, Andre Gunder

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1583671935 ISBN 13 : 9781583671931

Editeur : Monthly Review Press,U.S., 2011

Synopsis

Most of Andre Gunder Frank's early work on the nature of underdevelopment focused on one continent: Latin America. Here he broadened his canvas and traced the world-wide effects of the process of capital accumulation from the period just prior to the discovery of America to the industrial and French revolutions. It is Frank's thesis that "the world has experienced a single all-embracing, albeit unequal and uneven, process of capital accumulation centered in Western Europe," which has been capitalist for at least two centuries.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book studies the effects of cyclical fluctuations in the process of capital accumulation - the sixteenth-century expansion, the seventeenth-century depression, the cyclical swings between the Glorious Revolution in England in 1688 and the Peace of Paris in 1763, the Depression and the American, French, and Industrial Revolutions between 1762 and 1789. Frank connects the downswings or crises in accumulation to the changing leadership positions as they shifted from Italy to Spain and Portugal and then to Holland and Britain. He devotes particular attention to the successive incorporation into the single world system of Asia, Africa, and the Americas, whose economies and societies were transformed to contribute to the accumulation of capital in Western Europe and later in North America through exploitation, dependence, and unequal exchange.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Monthly Review Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1583671935
• ISBN 13: 9781583671931
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 308
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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