Globalization and the Race for Resources

AvStephen G. Bunker,Paul S. Ciccantell

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Globalization and the Race for Resources explores how five nations-Portugal, the Netherlands, Britain, the United States, and Japan-achieved trade dominance by devising technologies, social and financial institutions, and markets to enhance their access to raw materials. Through ecological and economic explanation of resource extraction and production, Stephen G. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell reveal globalization as the result of the progressive extension of systematically integrated material processes across cumulatively greater space. Drawing from extensive historical research into how economic and environmental dynamics interacted in the extraction of different materials in the Amazon, especially in the development of the iron mine of Carajas, the authors also illustrate the profound connection between global dominance and control of natural resources.

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-01-06
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Themes in Global Social Change
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9780801882432
Utmärkelser:Joint winner of Distinguished Scholarly Book Award 2006 (United States)

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Stephen G. Bunker (1944-2005) was a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Paul S. Ciccantell is an associate professor of sociology at Western Michigan University.

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There is much to merit to the authors' contribution. -- Pierre Desrochers Historical Geography 2007

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List of Figures and TablesPreface: Finding the Global in the LocalChapter 1. Matter, Space, Time, and Globalization: An IntroductionChapter 2. Globalizing Economies of Scale in the Sequence of Amazonian Extractive SystemsChapter 3. Between Nature and Society: How Technology Drives GlobalizationChapter 4. Bulky Goods and Industrial Organization in Early CapitalismChapter 5. From Wood to Steel: British-American Interdependent Expansion across the Atlantic and around the GlobeChapter 6. Raw Materials and Transport in the Economic Ascendancy of JapanChapter 7. ConclusionReferencesIndex