1st Edition

Re-Envisioning Global Development A Horizontal Perspective

By Sandra Halperin Copyright 2013
324 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

328 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

328 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Re-Envisioning Global Development offers an original conceptualisation of capitalist development from its origins to the present day. Most approaches to understanding contemporary development assume that industrial capitalism was achieved through a process of nationally organised economic growth, and that in recent years its organisation has become increasingly trans-local or global. However,... Read more

1. Global Development  2. The Origins and Development of Capitalism  3. Industrialization and the Expansion of Capital: Core and Periphery Re-Defined  4. City States and Nationalism  5. The Imperial Historic Bloc of the Nineteenth Century  6. The System Unravels: Contraction, Conflict and Social Revolution  7. The Post-World War II Interregnum  8. Globalization Redux

Biography

Sandra Halperin is Professor of International Relations and Co-Director of the Centre for Global and Transnational Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research interests include global development and the historical sociology of global relations. She is the author of Political Research (with Oliver Heath, Oxford University Press, 2012), War and Social Change in Modern Europe: the great transformation revisited (Cambridge University Press, 2004); In the Mirror of the Third World: Capitalist Development in Modern Europe (Cornell University Press, 1997); Global Civil Society and Its Limits (co-edited with Gordon Laxer, Palgrave/Macmillan 2003), and articles on contemporary Middle East politics, Islam, dermocracy, nationalism, ethnic conflict, state-building, historical sociology, and globalisation.