Perilous Passage Mankind and the Global

In this innovative and ambitious global history, distinguished economic historian Amiya Kumar Bagchi traces the global history of human change and survival under the sway of capitalism since the voyages of Columbus. Writing with extraordinary range and de

Amiya Kumar Bagchi is professor and director of the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata.

List of Tables

ix

Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

xxiii

Abbreviations

xxv

Part I: Conceptual Issues: Human Development and Capitalist Growth

History of Human Development as the Subject of History

3

(18)

Construction of the European Miracle

21

(14)

Profit Seeking under Actually Existing Capitalism and Human Development

35

(18)

Part II: Capitalist Competition and Human Development in Europe

Race for Dominance among the Western European Countries since the Sixteenth Century

53

(24)

Population Growth and Mortality between the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A First Look

77

(12)

The Netherlands: Rise and Fall of a Hegemonic Power

89

(12)

Delayed Transition to a Low-Mortality Regime in Europe and North America

101

(20)

Literacy in Western Europe since the Sixteenth Century

121

(14)

Part III: The World beyond Europe in the Age of Emergence of European Dominance

China's Economic Development and Quality of Life between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries

135

(10)

India under Mughal Rule and After

145

(22)

Conducting Trade in Asia before and after the European Advent

167

(12)

Reconsidering Japanese Exceptionalism

179

(16)

Capitalist Competition, Colonialism, and the Physical Well-Being of Non-European Peoples

195

(14)

Civilizing Mission and Racialization: From Native Americans to Asians

209

(12)

Civilizing Mission in Lands Taken by European Settlers from the Original Inhabitants

221

(8)

Intercontinental Resource Flows Sustaining the Ascent of the European Powers

229

(10)

Colonial Tribute and Profits, 1870s Onward

239

(10)

Demographic Disasters in the Colonies and Semicolonies in the Heyday of European Colonialism

249

(18)

Part IV: The Twentieth Century: Antisystemic Struggles, Wars, and Challenges to Global Capital

Setting the Stage for Megawars

267

(12)

Revolution, Nazism, Japanese Militarism, and World War II

279

(12)

Imperialism and Wars in the Late Twentieth Century

291

(14)

Capitalism and Uneven Development in the Twentieth Century

305

(14)

Destruction and Renewal in the Neoliberal Global Order

319

(8)

Contradictions, Challenges, and Resistance

327

(12)

References

339

(44)

Index

383

(12)

About the Author

395

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Perilous Passage Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital

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