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Author Wolf, Eric R., 1923-1999, author.

Title Europe and the people without history / Eric R. Wolf ; with a new foreword by Thomas Hylland Eriksen ; cartographic illustrations by Noël L. Diaz
Edition 2010 edition
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 503 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction -- The World in 1400 -- Modes of Production -- Europe, Prelude to Expansion -- Iberians in America -- The Fur Trade -- The Slave Trade -- Trade and Conquest in the Orient -- Industrial Revolution -- Crisis and Differentiation in Capitalism -- The Movement of Commodities -- The New Laborers
Summary Offering insight and equal consideration into the societies of the "civilized" and "uncivilized" world, Europe and the People Without History deftly explores the historical trajectory of so-called modern globalization. In this foundational text about the development of the global political economy, Eric R. Wolf challenges the long-held anthropological notion that non-European cultures and peoples were isolated and static entities before the advent of European colonialism and imperialism. Ironically referred to as "the People Without History" by Wolf, these societies before active colonization
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [427]-472) and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2021)
Subject Social change -- Europe
Social change.
Social Change
Emigration and immigration
Economic history
Social change
Social conditions
Naturvolk
Geschichte
Expansion
Sozialgeschichte
Unterricht
Wirtschaft
Overzeese expansie.
Kapitalisme.
Arbeidskrachten.
Sociaal-economische geschiedenis.
Nieuwe tijd.
Expansie (macht)
Antropologische aspecten.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
History & Archaeology.
History - General.
Changement (sociologie)
Geschichte (1400-1980)
Sozialgeschichte 1400-1980.
SUBJECT Europe -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045668
Europe -- History -- 1492- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045696
Europe -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045753
Europe -- Emigration and immigration
Subject Europe
Europa
Europe -- Histoire -- 1492-
Europe -- Conditions économiques.
Europe -- Conditions sociales.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, writer of foreword.
Diaz, Noel Lallana, illustrator.
ISBN 9780520948099
0520948092