Andre Gunder Frank asks us to re-orient our views away from Eurocentrism - to see the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a bold challenge to received historiography and social theory he turns on its head the world according to Marx, Weber, and other theorists, including Polanyi, Rostow, ...
The four essays in this book offer a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin American history as an aspect of the world-wide spread of capitalism in its commercial and industrial phases. Dr. Frank lays to rest the myth of Latin American feudalism, demonstrating in the process the impossibility of a bourgeois revolution in a part of the world which is ...
A comparative analysis of one of the most devastating social problems of the contemporary world. Focuses not only on acts of terrorism by terrorists, but with their portrayal and manipulation by others, particularly the media, for social and political purposes.
'The conquerors wanted Indian labour, the crown Indian subjects, the friars Indian souls.' Thus the importance of the natives of Mexico to their Spanish conquerors has been described. In this book Andre Gunder Frank examines the dramatic impact of Spanish rule on Mexican society and agriculture, in terms of the demands of world capitalist ...
Taking stock of political and economic development in the world today, this book re-examines development in an era of rapid social change, and reflects the work of an intellectual giant, Andre Gunder Frank. Gunder Frank deconstructed conventional development economics and modernization theory, creating dependency theory. Today dependency theory ...
Get the inside story from a Chinese journalist/consultant about China's business and politics. This revised volume gives an insider's analysis on what's behind China's surge and its implications to the world, covering manufacturing & job transfers, Chinese multinationals, changing production and trade, and international relations.
This volume discusses the historic long-term economic interconnections of the world, and how they are now universally accepted. The idea of the "world system" advanced by Immanuel Wallerstein has set the period of linkage in the early modern period. However, some academics think this date is much too late and denies a much longer interconnection ...
The historic long term economic interconnections of the world are now universally accepted. The idea of the economic "world system" advanced by Immanual Wallerstein has set the period of linkage in the early modern period, but Andre Gunder Frank thinks that this date is much too late and denies the much longer run of interconnection going back as ...
Most of Andre Gunder Frank's early work on the nature of underdevelopment focused on one continent: Latin America. Here he broadened his canvas and traced the world-wide effects of the process of capital accumulation from the period just prior to the discovery of America to the industrial and French revolutions. It is Frank's thesis that "the ...
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE)
Date Published: 1992
Description: Fine, 72pp, F, wraps. "The IIRE is a research and training center that is meeting the challenges of the neo-liberal world order by renewing and refounding an alternative perspective. Fields under study at the IIRE include economic globalization, 20th... Circa 1992. Fine, 72pp, F, wraps. "The IIRE is a research and training center that is meeting the challenges of the neo-liberal world order by renewing and refounding an alternative perspective. Fields under study at the IIRE include economic ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Radical Education Project
Date Published: [1963? ]
Description: 8p., wraps slightly worn, back page browned, 8.5x11 inches. This article was originally published in The Nation of 16 November, 1963. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bay Area Radical Education Project
Date Published: 1966
Description: 15 p., wraps, originally printed in Monthly Review, Sept. 1966. Owner's name in pen inside cover. Simultaneously printed in Boston by New England Free Press. read more
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