Format:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781849640411
Content:
A comprehensive introductory guide for students, teachers, volunteers and NGO workers in development, World Development examines the issues surrounding development, industrialisation and globalisation.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Examples -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Summary of Contents -- Introduction -- Aim of the Book -- SECTION I: World Development: Globalisation in Historical Perspective -- Introduction -- 1.1 The Expansion of Europe: Mercantile Trade 1500-1750 -- 1.2 Industrial Capitalism and 'Free Trade' 1750-1875 -- 1.3 Imperial Trade and Imperial Rivalries 1875-1945 -- 1.4 Superpower Competition and the Long Boom 1945 70 -- 1.5Debt, Crisis and the Third World 1970 90s -- 1.6 Globalisation in the Millennium -- SECTION 2: Globalisation: Industrialisation and Trade -- Introduction -- 2.1 The Latin American NICs: Import Substituting Industrialisation ( ISI) -- 2.2 The East Asian NICs: Export Orientated Industrialisation ( EOI) -- 2.3 Competing Perspectives on Trade Policy -- 2.4 People Trade: Globalisation and Immigrant Enterprise -- SECTION 3: Country Studies -- Introduction -- 3.1 Cyprus: Industrialisation Under Conditions of Globalisation -- 3.2 Spain: Economic Development Under Conditions of Autarky -- 3.3 South Korea: Free Market Miracle or Mirage? -- 3.4 Mexico: The Long March of Industrialisation -- 3.5 China: Breaking the Iron Rice Bowl -- SECTION 4: Commodity Studies -- Introduction -- 4.1 Copper: Chilean Miners - British Smelters in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- 4.2 Tourism: The Spanish Tourist Industry -- 4.3 The Global Textile Industry: An Engendered Protectionism -- Conclusions -- Development and its Discontents -- Appendix 1. Of Noble Savages and Lazy Natives -- Appendix 2. The Third World: An Activity -- Tables -- Figures -- Notes -- SECTION 2.1 -- SECTION 2.2 -- SECTION 2.3 -- SECTION 2.4 -- SECTION 3.1 -- SECTION 3.2 -- SECTION 3.3 -- SECTION 3.4 -- SECTION 3.5 -- SECTION 4.1 -- SECTION 4.2 -- SECTION 4.3 -- CONCLUSIONS -- References -- Further Reading.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745314075
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780745314075
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Economics
