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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [427]-472) and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2021)