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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.
MySearchLab is a part of the Robbins program. Research and writing tools help students master basic writing skills. With MySearchLab, students can access various academic journals, census data, and Associated Press news feeds, broadening their views on important issues.
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
In this section:
1) Brief Table of Content
2) Full Table of Contents
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART 1 - THE CONSUMER, THE LABORER, THE CAPITALIST, AND THE NATION-STATE IN
THE SOCIETY OF PERPETUAL GROWTH
Chapter 1: Constructing the Consumer
Chapter 2: The Laborer in the Culture of Capitalism
Chapter 3: The Rise and Fall of the Merchant, Industrialist, and Financier
Chapter 4: The Nation-State in the Culture of Capitalism
PART 2 - THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF THE CULTURE OF CAPITALISM
Chapter 5: Population Growth, Migration, and Urbanization
Chapter 6: Hunger, Poverty, and Economic Development
Chapter 7: Environment and Consumption
Chapter 8: Health and Disease
Chapter 9: Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Conflict
PART 3 - RESISTANCE AND REBELLION
Chapter 10: Peasant Protest, Rebellion, and Resistance
Chapter 11: Anti-Systemic Protest
Chapter 12: Religion and Anti-Systemic Protest
Chapter 13: Solving Global Problems: Some Solutions and Courses of Action
FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART 1 - THE CONSUMER, THE LABORER, THE CAPITALIST, AND THE NATION-STATE IN
THE SOCIETY OF PERPETUAL GROWTH
A Primer on Money: The Philosophers Stone
Chapter 1: Constructing the Consumer
Remaking Consumption
Kinderculture in America: The Child as Consumer
Exporting the Consumer
Chapter 2: The Laborer in the Culture of Capitalism
A Primer on the Elements of Capitalism
The Construction and Anatomy of the Working Class
Chapter 3: The Rise and Fall of the Merchant, Industrialist, and Financier
The Era of the Global Trader
The Era of the Industrialist
The Era of the Corporation, the Multilateral Institution, and the Capital
Speculator
The Second Great Contraction
Chapter 4: The Nation-State in the Culture of Capitalism
The Origin and History of the State
Constructing the Nation-State
Spin, Free Trade, and the Role of Energy in the Global Economy
PART 2 - THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF THE CULTURE OF CAPITALISM
A Primer on Market Externalities: Polanyis Paradox
Chapter 5: Population Growth, Migration, and Urbanization
The Malthusians Versus the Revisionists
Demographic Transition Theory
Population Growth in the Periphery
Issues of Immigration
Chapter 6: Hunger, Poverty, and Economic Development
The Evolution of Food Production: From the Neolithic to the Neocaloric
The Politics of Hunger
Solutions and Adaptations to Poverty and Hunger
Chapter 7: Environment and Consumption
The Case of Sugar
The Story of Beef
Creating a Taste for Beef
The Impact of Production On The Environment: The Effects of Climate Change
Chapter 8: Health and Disease
A Primer on How to Die from an Infectious Disease
The Relationship between Culture and Disease
AIDS and the Culture of Capitalism
Chapter 9: Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Conflict
The Fate of Indigenous Peoples
The Guaranķ: The Economics of Ethnocide
Disadvantaged Majorities and Their Revenge
PART 3 - RESISTANCE AND REBELLION
A Primer on Terrorism
Chapter 10: Peasant Protest, Rebellion, and Resistance
Malaysia and the Weapons of the Weak
Kikuyu and the Mau Mau Rebellion
The Rebellion in Chiapas
Chapter 11: Anti-Systemic Protest
Protest as Anti-Systemic: The Two World Revolutions
The Protests of Labor: Coal Miners in Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania
Global Feminist Resistance
Direct Action and Occupy Wall Street
Chapter 12: Religion and Anti-Systemic Protest
Indigenous Religious Movements as Anti-Systemic Protest
The Global Challenge of Anti-Systemic Religious Protest
Terror in the Mind of God
Chapter 13: Solving Global Problems: Some Solutions and Courses of Action
The Central Dilemma of Growth
Things We Could Do
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.
