Globalization and the race for resources
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Globalization and the race for resources
(Themes in global social change)
Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006
- : hbk.
- : pbk.
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Globalization and the Race for Resources explores how five nations-Portugal, the Netherlands, Britain, the United States, and Japan-achieved trade dominance by devising technologies, social and financial institutions, and markets to enhance their access to raw materials. Through ecological and economic explanation of resource extraction and production, Stephen G. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell reveal globalization as the result of the progressive extension of systematically integrated material processes across cumulatively greater space. Drawing from extensive historical research into how economic and environmental dynamics interacted in the extraction of different materials in the Amazon, especially in the development of the iron mine of Carajas, the authors also illustrate the profound connection between global dominance and control of natural resources.
Table of Contents
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Preface: Finding the Global in the Local
Chapter 1. Matter, Space, Time, and Globalization: An Introduction
Chapter 2. Globalizing Economies of Scale in the Sequence of Amazonian Extractive Systems
Chapter 3. Between Nature and Society: How Technology Drives Globalization
Chapter 4. Bulky Goods and Industrial Organization in Early Capitalism
Chapter 5. From Wood to Steel: British-American Interdependent Expansion across the Atlantic and around the Globe
Chapter 6. Raw Materials and Transport in the Economic Ascendancy of Japan
Chapter 7. Conclusion
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