Globalization and the Race for Resources

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8243-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 465 g

Reihe: Themes in Global Social Change

Co-winner of the Distinguished Book Award given by the Political Economy of World Systems section of the American Sociological Association

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bunker, Stephen G

Ciccantell, Paul S

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables
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
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bunker, Stephen G
Stephen G. Bunker (1944–2005) was a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Stephen G. Bunker (1944–2005) was a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Paul S. Ciccantell is an associate professor of sociology at Western Michigan University.