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.
| ISBN: | 9780801882425 |
| Publication date: | 11th November 2005 |
| Author: | Stephen G Bunker, Paul S Ciccantell |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 263 pages |
| Series: | Themes in Global Social Change |
| Genres: |
Sociology Development economics and emerging economies Geography |
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.
Globalization and the Race for Resources features in the following genres: Sociology, Development economics and emerging economies, Geography
Globalization and the Race for Resources is available in Paperback, Hardback
Globalization and the Race for Resources was written by Stephen G Bunker, Paul S Ciccantell and published by Johns Hopkins University Press
Globalization and the Race for Resources has 263 pages
Yes it is part of Themes in Global Social Change series