Europe and the People Without History

2. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-520-26818-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 536 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 746 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wolf, Eric R.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

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

Über Autor(innen)

Eric R. Wolf (1923–1999) had an illustrious and influential career as Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at H. Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York.