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There is much to merit to the authors' contribution.
Examines the ways that location and physical characteristics of natural resources affect trade dominance, economic development and underdevelopment, and the historical formation of the capitalist world economy. A theoretically innovative and historically grounded work that will be a standard point of reference for years to come.
Book Details
List of Figures and Tables
Preface: Finding the Global in the Local
Chapter 1. Matter, Space, Time, and Globalization: An Introduction
Chapter 2. Globalizing Economies of Scale in the Sequence of
List of Figures and Tables
Preface: Finding the Global in the Local
Chapter 1. Matter, Space, Time, and Globalization: An Introduction
Chapter 2. Globalizing Economies of Scale in the Sequence of Amazonian Extractive Systems
Chapter 3. Between Nature and Society: How Technology Drives Globalization
Chapter 4. Bulky Goods and Industrial Organization in Early Capitalism
Chapter 5. From Wood to Steel: British-American Interdependent Expansion across the Atlantic and around the Globe
Chapter 6. Raw Materials and Transport in the Economic Ascendancy of Japan
Chapter 7. Conclusion
References
Index