The end of development : a global history of poverty and prosperity /: a global history of poverty and prosperity. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Andrew Brooks.
• Authors: (Lecturer in development geography), Brooks, Andrew
• Contents: Front cover; About the author; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction. What's wrong with development?; Three American colonels; Two types of D/development; Dividing poverty and prosperity; Structure; Part I. Making the modern world; Chapter 1. Environmental determinism and early human history; The Green Sahara; Challenging nature; From hunter gatherers to farmers; What drove the agricultural revolution?; Places of agricultural revolution; Farmers rule the world; A European head start?; Civilization outside Europe before 1492; Chapter 2. Colonizing the world; Imperial Spain. European colonialismThe Columbian exchange; Early colonialism and capitalism; State making and the rise of European capitalism; What if China discovered America?; British capitalism and the Industrial Revolution; Slavery and capitalism; Domination and famine in India; Colonialism in perspective; Chapter 3. America: making the modern world; The rise and fall of Detroit; An empire of the homeland; Gold, capitalism, territory and race; American colonialism overseas; America: the world's hegemon; Part II. Development and change; Chapter 4. Anticipating modernity; Welcoming the modern world. What does it mean to be modern?Rostow's 'non-communist manifesto'; America remakes the world; Development as modernization in Mozambique; Modern Zambia; Development as modernization; Chapter 5. The resource curse and the debt crisis; Dealing with the devil in Ghana; The resource curse; Oil and poverty in Nigeria; Falling export incomes and loan dependency; The debt crisis; Star Wars and a new world order; Neoliberalism in the Global South; Did debt cause poverty?; Chapter 6. East Asian tigers; Culture wars; Making modern South Korea; A newly industrialized economy; Communist China. Opening China after 1978Made in Hong Kong; Hong Kong as a global city; East Asia in perspective; Part III. After development; Chapter 7. Is Africa rising?; It's time for Africa; Africa in the twenty-first century; African GDP growth; Millennium Development Goals; Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers; Narratives of development success and failure in Mozambique; Sustainable Development Goals?; Chapter 8. Depoliticizing development; The dream of revolution; Crisis in Malawi; Opposition to Mutharika; After Bingu wa Mutharika; Extraversion in Africa; Global corruption. Passive revolution in South AfricaThe rise of the BRICS; Africa's new debts to China; The BRICS in perspective; Chapter 9. What next? The end of development; What is wrong with International Development?; Why are different parts of the world rich and poor?; Has International Development succeeded or failed?; What does the end of development mean?; Notes; Index; Back cover.
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 338.9; Economic development -- History; Economic geography; Poverty -- History; Development studies; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General; Economic development; Economic geography; Poverty; Electronic books; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786990228; 1786990229; 9781786990235; 1786990237; 9781786990242; 1786990245
• Related ISBNs: 9781786990211; 9781786990204; 1786990202; 1786990210
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 12, 2017).
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