World Development-An Introduction

Prodromos Panayiotopoulos
and Gavin Capps

311pages

Contents
Preface xiii
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms xvii
Summary of Contents xix
Introduction 1
Aim of the Book 5
1. World Development: Globalisation in Historical
Perspective 9
Introduction 11
Gavin Capps
1.1 The Expansion of Europe: Mercantile Trade 1500–1750 13
1.2 Industrial Capitalism and ‘Free Trade’ 1750–1875 20
1.3 Imperial Trade and Imperial Rivalries 1875–1945 28
1.4 Superpower Competition and the Long Boom 1945–70 35
1.5 Debt, Crisis and the Third World 1970–90s
1.6Globalisation in the Millennium 53
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2. Globalisation: Industrialisation and Trade 63
Introduction 65
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2.1 The Latin American NICs: Import Substituting
Industrialisation (ISI) 68
2.2 The East Asian NICs: Export Orientated Industrialisation (EOI) 78
2.3 Competing Perspectives on Trade Policy 88
2.4 People Trade: Globalisation and Immigrant Enterprise 98
3. Country Studies 113
Introduction 115
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3.1 Cyprus: Industrialisation Under Conditions of Globalisation 117
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3.2 Spain: Economic Development Under Conditions of Autarky 125
Jose D. Garcia Perez
3.3 South Korea: Free Market Miracle or Mirage? 133
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3.4 Mexico: The Long March of Industrialisation 148
Luis Valenzuela
3.5 China: Breaking the Iron Rice Bowl 157
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4. Commodity Studies 169
Introduction 171
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4.1 Copper: Chilean Miners – British Smelters in the
Mid-Nineteenth Century 173
Luis Valenzuela
4.2 Tourism: The Spanish Tourist Industry 181
Jose D. Garcia Perez
4.3 The Global Textile Industry: An Engendered Protectionism 192
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Conclusions 207
Development and its Discontents 209
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Appendix 1: Of Noble Savages and Lazy Natives 219
Appendix 2: The Third World. An Activity 224
Tables 228
Figures 243
Notes 247
References 254
Further Reading 266
Useful Websites 270
Glossary 272
Notes on Authors 280
Index 283