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Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism 6th edition [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 432 pages, aukštis x plotis: 254x203 mm, weight: 671 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 29-Aug-2013
  • Leidėjas: Pearson
  • ISBN-10: 0205917658
  • ISBN-13: 9780205917655
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 432 pages, aukštis x plotis: 254x203 mm, weight: 671 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 29-Aug-2013
  • Leidėjas: Pearson
  • ISBN-10: 0205917658
  • ISBN-13: 9780205917655
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Examines the development and impact of capitalist culture

From its roots more than 500 years ago to the present day, capitalism expanded from Western Europe to the United States and then to much of the rest of the world. This expansion has not gone uncontested; resistance has been both direct and indirect, including political, religious, and social protest, and even revolution. How and why capitalist culture developed and the reasons why some groups resisted and continue to resist its development are among the issues explored in Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, 6/e.

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Recenzijos

A must-read for anyone hoping to even begin to comprehend the complexities and underlying bases of the modern world.

  - James Sewastynowicz, Jacksonville State University

 





Frankly, I am not familiar with a book similar to this one in its scope, readability, or focus. Overwhelmingly my students find it to be appropriate and interesting.

  - Miguel Vasquez, Northern Arizona University

 





Robbins does a nice job of integrating the problems of hunger with the issues of a capitalist economy.

  - George Esber, Miami University Middletown

 





. . . I think the organization works really well. I like that it is organized according to the dynamics of capitalism, its affects across the globe, and finally responses and challenges to it. I especially like that the book ends with a chapter on citizen-activism. I like the writing style. It is friendly, up-beat, not mechanical.

  - Suzanne Scheld, California State University, Northridge

Preface xiii
PART 1 Introduction: The Consumer, the Laborer, the Capitalist, and the Nation-State in the Society of Perpetual Growth
1(126)
A Primer on Money: The Philosopher's Stone
3(2)
The Development of Commodity Money
5(2)
The Shift from Commodity to Fiat or Debt Money
7(1)
The Consequences of a System of Debt Money
8(4)
Chapter 1 Constructing the Consumer
12(23)
Remaking Consumption
14(1)
Marketing and Advertising
15(2)
The Transformation of Institutions
17(2)
The Transformation of Spiritual and Intellectual Values
19(2)
The Reconfiguration of Time, Space, and Class
21(2)
Kinderculture in America: The Child as Consumer
23(1)
The Role of Children in Capitalism
23(2)
The Social Construction of Childhood
25(6)
Exporting the Consumer
31(3)
Conclusion
34(1)
Chapter 2 The Laborer in the Culture of Capitalism
35(22)
A Primer on the Elements of Capitalism
36(3)
The Baptism of Money
39(1)
The Construction and Anatomy of the Working Class
40(1)
Characteristics of the Working Class
40(5)
The Growth of Overseas Assembly Plants
45(3)
The Creation of Free Labor
48(1)
The Segmentation of the Workforce
49(3)
Control and Discipline
52(2)
Resistance and Rebellion
54(1)
Conclusion
55(2)
Chapter 3 The Rise and Fall of the Merchant, Industrialist, and Financier
57(42)
The Era of the Global Trader
60(1)
A Trader's Tour of the World in 1400
60(5)
The Economic Rise of Europe and Its Impact on Africa and the Americas
65(5)
The Birth of Finance and the Tulip Bubble of 1636-1637
70(4)
The Era of the Industrialist
74(3)
Textiles and the Rise of the Factory System
77(1)
The Age of Imperialism
78(5)
The Era of the Corporation, the Multilateral Institution, and the Capital Speculator
83(1)
The Rise of the Corporation
83(3)
Bretton Woods and the World Debt
86(6)
The "Second Great Contraction"
92(5)
Conclusion
97(2)
Chapter 4 The Nation-State in the Culture of Capitalism
99(28)
The Origin and History of the State
101(1)
The Evolution of the State
101(1)
The History and Function of the Nation-State
102(2)
Constructing the Nation-State
104(1)
Creating the Other
105(1)
Language, Bureaucracy, and Education
106(3)
Violence and Genocide
109(4)
Spin, Free Trade, and the Role of Energy in the Global Economy
113(1)
Manufacturing Consent: Spin
114(4)
Markets and Free Trade
118(2)
Energy and Technology
120(4)
Conclusion
124(3)
PART 2 The Global Impact of the Culture of Capitalism: Introduction
127(148)
A Primer on Market Externalities: Polanyi's Paradox
129(4)
Chapter 5 Population Growth, Migration, and Urbanization
133(35)
The Malthusians Versus the Revisionists
135(1)
The Case of India and China
136(2)
The Issue of Carrying Capacity
138(1)
The Ideology of Malthusian Concerns
138(3)
Demographic Transition Theory
141(2)
A Primer on the Determinants of Population Growth and Decline
143(2)
Some Examples of Demographic Change
145(3)
Population Growth in the Periphery
148(1)
Wealth Flows Theory
149(2)
The Social Implications of Wealth Flows Theory
151(1)
The Question of Gender and Power
152(2)
Issues of Immigration
154(2)
History of Migration
156(2)
The Economics of Immigration
158(2)
Understanding Illegal Immigration
160(2)
Urbanization and the Growth of Slums
162(5)
Conclusion
167(1)
Chapter 6 Hunger, Poverty, and Economic Development
168(29)
The Evolution of Food Production: From the Neolithic to the Neocaloric
169(1)
From Gathering and Hunting to the Neolithic
170(1)
Capitalism and Agriculture
171(2)
The Neocaloric and the Green Revolution
173(3)
The Politics of Hunger
176(1)
The Anatomy of Famine
177(2)
The Anatomy of Endemic Hunger
179(5)
Solutions and Adaptations to Poverty and Hunger
184(1)
Economic Development
184(4)
The Nature and Growth of the Informal Economy
188(3)
The Nature and Scope of the Informal Economy of Drugs
191(5)
Conclusion
196(1)
Chapter 7 Environment and Consumption
197(23)
The Case of Sugar
202(1)
Sugar Origins and Production
202(1)
Uses of Sugar
202(1)
The Development of the Sugar Complex
203(1)
The Expansion of Sugar Production
203(1)
The Mass Consumption of Sugar
204(1)
Modern Sugar
205(1)
The Story of Beef
206(1)
Creating a Taste for Beef
207(1)
The Emergence of the American Beef Industry
208(4)
Modern Beef
212(1)
The Impact of Production on the Environment: The Effects of Climate Change
213(4)
The Environment, Sustainability, and the Nation-State
217(2)
Conclusion
219(1)
Chapter 8 Health and Disease
220(28)
A Primer on How to Die from an Infectious Disease
225(4)
The Relationship between Culture and Disease
229(1)
Gathering and Hunting to Early Agriculture
229(1)
Cities: "Graveyards of Mankind"
230(3)
Diseases of Environmental Change
233(2)
Diseases of Human Ecology: Chickens, Pigs, and Wild Birds
235(1)
The Origin of Influenza: Avian Flu and H1N1
235(3)
Aids and the Culture of Capitalism
238(2)
How Did the Disease Spread?
240(3)
Who Gets Infected with AIDS?
243(2)
Who Gets Blamed?
245(1)
Conclusion
246(2)
Chapter 9 Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Conflict
248(27)
The Fate of Indigenous Peoples
251(1)
Some Characteristics of Indigenous Peoples
251(1)
The Process of Ethnocide
252(7)
The Guarani: The Economics of Ethnocide
259(1)
History and Background
260(2)
Contemporary Development and Guarani Communities
262(2)
Disadvantaged Majorities and Their Revenge
264(2)
Leveling Crowds
266(1)
Genocide as an Externality of the Market
267(6)
Conclusion
273(2)
PART 3 Resistance and Rebellion: Introduction
275(104)
A Primer on Terrorism
277(5)
Chapter 10 Peasant Protest, Rebellion, and Resistance
282(24)
Malaysia and the Weapons of the Weak
283(1)
Malaysian Peasants and the Green Revolution
284(2)
Fighting Back
286(1)
Obstacles to Resistance
287(1)
Protest and Change
288(1)
Kikuyu and the Mau Mau Rebellion
289(1)
The British in East Africa
289(2)
The White Highlands
291(1)
The Roots of the Rebellion
292(2)
The Rebellion
294(1)
"State of Emergency"
295(2)
The Oath and the Detention Camps
297(1)
Independence
298(1)
The Rebellion in Chiapas
299(2)
Poverty and Inequality in Chiapas
301(1)
The Rebellion and the Global Economy
302(1)
The Revolt and the Reactions of the Mexican Government
303(1)
The Future of Peasants
304(1)
Conclusion
305(1)
Chapter 11 Anti-Systemic Protest
306(23)
Protest as Anti-Systemic: The Two World Revolutions
307(1)
The Revolution of 1848
308(2)
The Revolution of 1968
310(1)
The Protests of Labor: Coal Miners in Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania
311(1)
The Coal Industry and the Worker's Life
311(3)
Worker Resistance and Protest
314(2)
Destroying Worker Resistance
316(1)
Global Feminist Resistance
317(2)
Gender Relations in the Culture of Capitalism
319(2)
Strategies of Protest
321(2)
Direct Action and Occupy Wall Street
323(2)
Anarchism and Direct Action
325(3)
Conclusion
328(1)
Chapter 12 Religion and Anti-Systemic Protest
329(24)
Indigenous Religious Movements as Anti-Systemic Protest
331(1)
The Ghost Dance
331(1)
The Cargo Cults
332(2)
Zionism in South Africa
334(2)
The Global Challenge of Anti-Systemic Religious Protest
336(2)
Islamic Fundamentalism
338(1)
Islamic Fundamentalism in Iran
339(1)
Protestant Fundamentalism in North America
340(5)
"Terror in the Mind of God"
345(1)
Some Examples of Religious Violence
346(5)
Understanding Religious Violence
351(1)
Conclusion
351(2)
Chapter 13 Solving Global Problems: Some Solutions and Courses of Action
353(26)
The Central Dilemma of Growth
354(3)
The Depletion of Natural Capital/Wealth
357(1)
The Depletion of Political Capital/Wealth
358(5)
The Depletion of Social Capital/Wealth
363(9)
Things We Could Do
372(3)
The Debt Strike
375(1)
Conclusion
376(3)
References 379(13)
Name Index 392(6)
Place and Culture Index 398(3)
Subject Index 401
Richard Robbins received his Ph.D. in anthropology from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has spent his entire teaching career at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh.  Some of his most formative academic experiences include field research among Cree, Inuit and Naskapi First Nations peoples of Canada, Acadian farmers and fisherfolk in New Brunswick, Canada, and among religious communal societies in the United States.  A research semester at the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh would count as one of his most stimulating intellectual experiences. 

 

He has received the State University of New Yorks Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching and the American Anthropological Association/McGraw-Hill Teacher of the Year Award.  He appeared also in the hit anti-globalization documentary, The Yes Men.  He is currently SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at Plattsburgh, and maintains a global problems website at www.plattsburgh.edu/legacy and a general website at faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins.  He can be contacted by email at richard.robbins@plattsburgh.edu.