Europe and the Third World
Title | Europe and the Third World PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Waites |
Publisher | Red Globe Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999-07-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0333588681 |
This book examines the impact of European expansion into the Americas, Asia and Africa in terms of Europe's own development and the "underdevelopment" of the so-called Third World.
Europe's Third World
Title | Europe's Third World PDF eBook |
Author | Derek H. Aldcroft |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2016-04-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317138872 |
Economic historians have perennially addressed the intriguing question of comparative development, asking why some countries develop much faster and further than others. Focusing primarily on Europe between 1914 and 1939, this present volume explores the development of thirteen countries that could be said to be categorised as economically backward during this period: Albania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey and Yugoslavia. These countries are linked, not only in being geographically on Europe's periphery, but all shared high agrarian components and income levels much lower than those enjoyed in western European countries. The study shows that by 1918 many of these countries had structural characteristics which either relegated them to a low level of development or reflected their economic backwardness, characteristics that were not helped by the hostile economic climate of the interwar period. It explores, region by region, how their progress was checked by war and depression, and how the effects of political and social factors could also be a major impediment to sustained progress and modernisation. For example, in many cases political corruption and instability, deficient administrations, ethnic and religious diversity, agrarian structures and backwardness, population pressures, as well as international friction, were retarding factors. In all this study offers a fascinating insight into many areas of Europe that are often ignored by economists and historians. It demonstrates that these countries were by no means a lost cause, and that their post-war performances show the latent economic potential that most harboured. By providing an insight into the development of Europe's 'periphery' a much more rounded and complete picture of the continent as a whole is achieved.
Europe and the Third World
Title | Europe and the Third World PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Waites |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780312222079 |
This stimulating analysis of Europe's role in world history focuses on Western economic expansion into the regions loosely known as the "Third World." Bernard Waites begins with the very origins of the term "Third World" and the attempts to theorize global inequality in modern history on the part of the "dependency" writers and those writing from a "world systems" perspective. Subsequent chapters analyze the intercontinental connections forged by Europeans with Latin America, Asia, Africa and South Asia, challenging many common assumptions about the Third World's history and providing an essential context to contemporary debates about post-colonialism.
The Discovery of the Third World
Title | The Discovery of the Third World PDF eBook |
Author | Christoph Kalter |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 517 |
Release | 2016-09-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107074517 |
This book explores the emergence of 'Third Worldism' as a new intellectual movement during the era of decolonisation and the Cold War.
In the Mirror of the Third World
Title | In the Mirror of the Third World PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Halperin |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2018-09-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1501725467 |
In Marx's familiar dictum, the more-developed country shows the less developed an image of its own future. Turning this idea upside down, In the Mirror of the Third World looks to the contemporary Third World for a reflection of European history. The resulting view challenges standard accounts of European social, economic, and political development. Sandra Halperin's analysis of the European experience begins where studies of Third World development often start: considering the legacies of colonial domination. Europe also had a colonial past, she reminds us, and the states of Europe, like those of today's Third World, were the product of colonialism and imperialism. From this starting point, Halperin traces features characteristic of Third World development through the history of European capitalism: enclave economies oriented to foreign markets; weak middle classes; alliances among the state, traditional landowning elites, and new industrial classes; unstable and partial democracy; sharp inequalities; and increasing poverty—all as much a part of European society on the eve of World War I as they are of developing countries today. Halperin also emphasizes the emergence of a militant, literal religion in Europe and its critical role in the class struggles of the nineteenth century.
Europe and the Third World
Title | Europe and the Third World PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Waites |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 371 |
Release | 1999-07-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1349276235 |
Europe and the Third World provides a schematic historical analysis of the relations between Europe and the extra-European periphery within the twin contexts of global economic inequality and global disparities in political power. The colonial and imperial relationships between western Europe and the wider world since the late fifteenth century, and the course and consequences of decolonization, form the substance of the discussion, which concludes with a glance at the links between the European Union and the world's poorest states, most of which are former colonies.
The European Union and Developing Countries
Title | The European Union and Developing Countries PDF eBook |
Author | C. Cosgrove-Sacks |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 381 |
Release | 1999-05-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230509185 |
This book examines the ways in which EU policies towards developing countries are changing in response to the new challenges of globalization and the end of the Cold War. It analyses the patchwork of relationships between the fifteen Member States and more than 140 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Mediterranean.