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- catalog abstract ""This book takes the study of development and social change out of the confines of the Modernization Theory - Dependency Theory debate. The author examines social change against a background of the rise of the West and the global spread of its institutions. Spybey analyzes the development of the nation-state system in the modern world, emphasizing its Western origins. He also traces out the emergence of colonialism, the capitalist world-economy and Western dominance over other parts of the world. The author goes on to examine these developments after the Second World War, against the background of the Cold War and the end of European colonialism, the reaffirmed of the existence of nation-state system by new global institutions, global military order and capitalist world economy. The First, Second and Third Worlds are placed in their social, political and economic contexts and traced through to the post-Bretton Woods period of oil crises, global recession and new international division of labour."--Publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b3654352.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description ""This book takes the study of development and social change out of the confines of the Modernization Theory - Dependency Theory debate. The author examines social change against a background of the rise of the West and the global spread of its institutions. Spybey analyzes the development of the nation-state system in the modern world, emphasizing its Western origins. He also traces out the emergence of colonialism, the capitalist world-economy and Western dominance over other parts of the world. The author goes on to examine these developments after the Second World War, against the background of the Cold War and the end of European colonialism, the reaffirmed of the existence of nation-state system by new global institutions, global military order and capitalist world economy. The First, Second and Third Worlds are placed in their social, political and economic contexts and traced through to the post-Bretton Woods period of oil crises, global recession and new international division of labour."--Publisher description.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction --- Part I. Concepts of Social Change --- Part II. The Rise of Western Civilization --- Part III. The Definition of Three 'Worlds' after the Second World War --- Part IV. The World Towards the End of the Twentieth Century --- Conclusion.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 257 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Social change, development, and dependency.".
- catalog identifier "0745607292".
- catalog identifier "0745607306 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Social change, development, and dependency.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Polity Press,".
- catalog relation "Social change, development, and dependency.".
- catalog subject "338.9 20".
- catalog subject "Dependency.".
- catalog subject "Economic history 20th century.".
- catalog subject "HC54 .S69 1992".
- catalog subject "Social change.".
- catalog subject "World politics 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction --- Part I. Concepts of Social Change --- Part II. The Rise of Western Civilization --- Part III. The Definition of Three 'Worlds' after the Second World War --- Part IV. The World Towards the End of the Twentieth Century --- Conclusion.".
- catalog title "Social change, development, and dependency : modernity, colonialism and the deveopment of the west / Tony Spybey.".
- catalog type "text".