Global History : A View from the South.
Title:
Global History : A View from the South.
Author:
Amin, Samir.
ISBN:
9781906387976
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (202 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The ancient world systems versus the modmodern capitalist world system -- Central Asia and the Middle East in the tributary system of the ancient world -- The challenge of globalisation -- History conceived as an eternal cycle -- Europe and China: two paths of historical development -- Russia in the world system: geography or history -- Index -- Figure 1: The tributary world system (300 bc-1500 ad) -- Figure 2: The early roots (up to 200 bc) -- Figure 3:The tributary systems (300 bc-1500 ad) -- Table 1: Locally generated external flows -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
Responding to the need to take a fresh look at world history, hitherto dominated by Eurocentric ideologues and historians in their attempt to justify the nature and character of modern capitalism, Samir Amin looks in this book at the ancient world system and how it has influenced the development of the modern world. He analyses the origin and nature of modern globalization and the challenges it presents in achieving socialism and examines the role played by Central Asia in determining the course of world history as well as the different roads taken by Europe and China. The book looks closely at a theme that has been primordial to his contribution to political and economic thought: the question of unequal development.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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