World Accumulation, 1492-1789
Description
Most of Andre Gunder Frank's early work on the nature of underdevelopment focused on one Latin America. Here he broadened his canvas and traced the world-wide effects of the process of capital accumulation from the period just prior to the discovery of America to the industrial and French revolutions. It is Frank's thesis that "the world has experienced a single all-embracing, albeit unequal and uneven, process of capital accumulation centered in Western Europe," which has been capitalist for at least two centuries.
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HistoryWorld
1978Book
Author(s)Andre Gunder Frank
PublisherMacmillan
ISBN9780333238837
LanguageEnglish
