Zusatztext "Wolf's intention is to explain the development and nature of the chains of cause and consequence which linked populations in the post-1400 world. The outcome is a tightly structured and elegant book." Informationen zum Autor Eric R. Wolf is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Herbert H. Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Klappentext Eric R. Wolf reconsidera la historia en cuanto ha sido decidida no slo por los grandes acontecimientos, los movimientos religiosos y polticos y las inclinaciones o necesidades econmicas, sino tambin en cuanto a determinar seres oscuros y aparentemente insignificantes. No slo se trata de la masa que lleva y es llevada por los impulsos apuntados, sino de esos testigos y vctimas involuntarios que se vieron envueltos en los grandes cambios o evoluciones del acontecimiento humano. Zusammenfassung Explores the historical trajectory of so-called modern globalization. This title challenges the long-held anthropological notion that non-European cultures and people were isolated and static entities before the advent of European colonialism and imperialism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword to the 2010 Edition Preface (1997) Preface (1982) Part One Connections 1 Introduction 2 The World in 1400 3 Modes of Production 4 Europe! Prelude to Expansion Part Two In Search of Wealth 5 Iberians in America 6 The Fur Trade 7 The Slave Trade 8 Trade and Conquest in the Orient Part Three Capitalism 9 Industrial Revolution 10 Crisis and Differentiation in Capitalism 11 The Movement of Commodities 12 The New Laborers Afterword Bibliographic Notes Bibliography Index

Autorentext

Eric R. Wolf is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Herbert H. Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York.

Klappentext

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 possessed perpetually changing, reactionary cultures and were indeed just as intertwined into the processes of the pre-Columbian global economic system as their European counterparts. Utilizing Marxian concepts and a vivid consideration for the importance of history, Wolf judiciously traces the effects and conditions in Europe and the rest of the "known" world, beginning in 1400 AD, that allowed capitalism to emerge as the dominant ideology of the modern era.

Zusammenfassung
Explores the historical trajectory of so-called modern globalization. This title challenges the long-held anthropological notion that non-European cultures and people were isolated and static entities before the advent of European colonialism and imperialism.

Inhalt
Foreword to the 2010 Edition
Preface (1997)
Preface (1982)

Part One Connections
1 Introduction
2 The World in 1400
3 Modes of Production
4 Europe, Prelude to Expansion

Part Two In Search of Wealth
5 Iberians in America
6 The Fur Trade
7 The Slave Trade
8 Trade and Conquest in the Orient

Part Three Capitalism
9 Industrial Revolution
10 Crisis and Differentiation in Capitalism
11 The Movement of Commodities
12 The New Laborers

Afterword
Bibliographic Notes
Bibliography
Index