Development may be best understood in terms of the interplay among capital accumulation, the state, and class. Subject to globalizing structures, classes, in turn, are examined in light of their interactions with culture, especially gender and religion as well as ecology. Case-studies - Brazil, the Asian newly industrializing countries, China, and Mozambique - reveal three possibilities for overcoming underdevelopment: joining, leaving, or weaving through global capitalism. The conclusions do not fail to present specific principles upon which policies can be based.

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List of Figures and Tables - Preface to the First Edition - Preface to the Second Edition - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - A Note on Style - PART 1: INTRODUCTION - Public Platitudes and Unfounded Attitudes - PART 2: IDEOLOGIES AND STRUCTURES OF ACCUMULATION - Sources of Received Ideas about the Third World - Received Ideas and International Institutions - Back to the Nineteenth Century for New Ideas - PART 3: STRATEGIES OF ACCUMULATION - The Conventional Route, Joining Global Capitalism: Track 1, Brazil - The Conventional Route, Joining Global Capitalism: Track 2, the Asian NICs - The Exit Option, Withdrawing from and Re-entering Global Capitalism: China under and after Mao - The Alternative Path, Weaving through Global Capitalism: Mozambique - PART 4: THE BIG QUESTION - What Works in the Third World? - Postscript - Notes and References - Index