A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

Raj Patel

ISBN 10: 1788732138 / ISBN 13: 9781788732130

Verlag: Verso, 2018

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Titel: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things...

Verlag: Verso

Erscheinungsdatum: 2018

Einband: Hardcover

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Inhaltsangabe:

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism. At a time of crisis in all seven cheap things, innovative and systemic thinking is urgently required. This book proposes a radical new way of understanding-and reclaiming-the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren:

Raj Patel is an award-winning writer, activist, and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a Senior Research Associate at the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes University. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System and The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy.

Jason W. Moore teaches world history at Binghamton University, USA, where he coordinates the World-Ecology Research Collective. Recent books include L'écologie-monde du capitalisme, Oltre la giustizia climatica, and, with Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. His books and essays on class, capital, and empire in the web of life have been awarded the Alice Hamilton Prize in environmental history, the Byres and Bernstein Prize for agrarian studies, the Braverman Prize for labor studies, and the Immanuel Wallerstein Award for Capitalism in the Web of Life. Moore's interviews, lectures, and essays can be found in over 20 languages on his website: https://jasonwmoore.com/.