Europe and the People Without HistoryThe intention of this work is to show that European expansion not only transformed the historical trajectory of non-European societies but also reconstituted the historical accounts of these societies before European intervention. It asserts that anthropology must pay more attention to history. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The World in 1400 | 24 |
Modes of Production | 73 |
Europe Prelude to Expansion | 101 |
Part Two In Search of Wealth | 127 |
Industrial Revolution | 267 |
Crisis and Differentiation in Capitalism | 296 |
The Movement of Commodities | 310 |
The New Laborers | 354 |
Afterword | 385 |
Bibliographic Notes | 393 |
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