Book ID: CBB841103232

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet (2017)

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Raj Patel (Author)
Moore, Jason W. (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 328
Language: English

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today’s planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism. At a time of crisis in all seven cheap things, innovative and systemic thinking is urgently required. This book proposes a radical new way of understanding—and reclaiming—the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century.

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Authors & Contributors
Bawden, Garth
Besley, John C.
Masco, Joseph
Matthewman, Steve
Milne, Antony
Muir, Cameron
Journals
Environment and History
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
Cultural Anthropology
Environmental History
Transfers
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Beck
Duke University Press
I. B. Tauris
Johns Hopkins University Press
Louisiana State University Press
Concepts
Environmental degradation
Disasters; catastrophes
Ecology
Environmental sciences
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Environmental pollution
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
14th century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Southern states (U.S.)
Africa
Chile
India
New Mexico (U.S.)
Institutions
Marywood University
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