Globalization and the Postcolonial World
According to Ankie Hoogvelt, this book is intended to "introduce students to debates regarding the development prospects of the Third World." This she accomplishes in very compact and richly documented detail. Indeed, there are so many citations that the lack of a bibliography is sorely f...
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International Institute of Islamic Thought
2002
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| Sumario: | According to Ankie Hoogvelt, this book is intended to "introduce students to
debates regarding the development prospects of the Third World." This she
accomplishes in very compact and richly documented detail. Indeed, there
are so many citations that the lack of a bibliography is sorely felt.
The book is divided into three parts, each addressing a broad theme
affecting development and the Third World. The first considers the historical
route of capitalist expansion into a world economic system by means of,
among other things, the core countries' depredations of their peripheral
colonies. The second treats the world economy's increasing internationalization
and the retrenchment of wealth accumulation by means of strategic
hegemony and economic regulation, especially by the United States. The
final part examines the resultant situations in the four distinct sociocultural
realms of the Third World, devoting a chapter to each: sub-Saharan Africa,
the Islamic world, East Asia, and Latin America.
True to the spirit of debate she is trying to foster in her students,
Hoogvelt challenges some of the conventional assumptions about human
society's advancement under globalization. She points out that, contrary
to expert consensus, the flow of wealth to the Third world has declined
since the colonial era. Or, again, that world trade represented a greater
percentage of world production at the beginning of the twentieth century,
before the era of globalization, than it did at its end, when it was in full
stride. Or, yet again, that much of the apparent increase in trade, especially ...
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