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Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, 3/E
Richard H. Robbins, State University of New York at Plattsburgh

ISBN-10: 0205407412
ISBN-13: 9780205407415

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 448 pp
Published: 07/19/2004

This award-winning text explores one of the most successful cultures and society the world has ever seen—capitalism.

From capitalism's European roots more than 500 years ago to the present, this widely acclaimed text examines the problems caused by its expansion, inequality, environmental destruction, and social unrest.

Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism provides the reader with the anthropological, economic, and historical framework to understand the origins of global problems, why globalization and the global expansion of the culture of capitalism has generated protest and resistance, and the steps necessary to solve global problems. Up-to-date information throughout the text helps students maintain a current view of the rapidity of global change. As one reviewer says, “In today's world of global cultures the key to solving the problems of the future depends on understanding the cultures of today. Robbins' book spells this out in clear and easy-to-read prose. It is the one book that every college student should be required to read.”

This product accompanies:
Robbins, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, 4/E

Takes a student-oriented, problem-based approach, focusing on social problems such as hunger, poverty, environmental devastation, disease, gender issues, and social conflict.
Helps students to understand the cultural roots of global problems and the changes that are necessary if these problems are to be solved.
The concluding chapter, “The Construction of the Citizen-Activist,” provides students with ways to conceptualize social activism.
A discussion of economic development gives students a perspective on the problems inherent with economic development schemes (Ch. 6).
New reader, Talking Points on Global Issues, contains twenty-nine readings organized into thirteen problems that correspond to the chapters of the text and is designed to promote discussion and thought on global issues that have a direct bearing on our everyday lives. Available free when packaged with the textbook using Special ISBN Order No. 0-205.
Online Reader offering 12-15 readings appropriate for each chapter in the text is available on the text's Companion Website. This site, regularly updated by the author, also offers an extensive list of Websites on global concerns, including links to resources on countries, corporations, global media, and maps; a “global updates” page that features links to news stories and articles on emerging global issues; course syllabi, course assignments and exercises, discussion questions, and more! Visit www.ablongman.com/robbins.
TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE – FREE Online Reader offering 12-15 readings appropriate for each chapter in the text is available from the Companion Website. This site, regularly updated by the author, also offers an extensive list of Websites on global concerns, including links to resources on countries, corporations, global media, and maps; a "global updates" page that features links to news stories and articles on emerging global issues; course syllabi, course assignments and exercises, discussion questions, and more! Visit www.ablongman.com/robbins.

New material on “terrorism” (Chs. 11 and 13) and slavery in the global economy (Ch. 2)

Expanded discussion of ethnic conflict and genocide (Ch. 10) and the role and meaning of money (Chs 1, 2, 3, and 4).

Expanded sections on privatization of the military (Ch. 4).

Expanded introductions to Parts I, II, and III.

Each chapter ends with “Conclusion.”

I. THE CONSUMER, THE LABORER, THE CAPITALIST, AND THE NATION-STATE IN THE SOCIETY OF PERPETUAL GROWTH.

Introduction to Part One: A Primer on Money.

1. Constructing the Consumer.

Remaking Consumption.

Marketing and Advertising.

The Transformation of Institutions.

The Transformation of Spiritual and Intellectual Values.

The Reconfiguration of Space and Class.

Kinderculture in America: The Child as Consumer.

The Role of Children in Capitalism.

The Social Construction of Childhood.

Exporting the Consumer.

2. The Laborer in the Culture of Capitalism.

A Primer on the Economic Elements of Capitalism.

The Baptism of Money.

The Construction and Anatomy of the Working Class.

Characteristics of the Working Class.

The Growth of Overseas Assembly Plants.

The Creation of Free Labor.

The Segmentation of the Workforce.

Control and Discipline.

Resistance and Rebellion.

3. The Rise of the Merchant, Industrialist, and Capital Controller.

The Era of the Global Trader.

A Trader's Tour of the World in 1400.

The Economic Rise of Europe and its Impact on Africa and the Americas.

The Rise of the Trading Companies.

The Era of the Industrialist.

Textiles and the Rise of the Factory System.

The Age of Imperialism.

The Era of the Corporation, the Multilateral Institution, and the Capital Controller.

The Rise of the Corporation.

Bretton Woods and the World Debt.

The Power of Capital Controllers.

4. The Nation-State in the Culture of Capitalism.

The Origin and History of the State.

The Evolution of the State.

The History and Function of the Nation-State.

Constructing the Nation-State.

Creating the Other.

Language, Bureaucracy, and Education.

Violence and Genocide.

The Future of the Nation-State.

Transnationalism and Migration.

Will Corporations Rule the World?

Nongovernmental Organizations.

II. THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF THE CULTURE OF CAPITALISM.

Introduction to Part Two: A Primer on Market Externalities: Polanyi's Paradox.

5. The Problem of Population Growth.

The Malthusians versus the Revisionists.

The Case of India and China.

The Issue of Carrying Capacity.

The Ideology of Malthusian Concerns.

Demographic Transition Theory.

A Primer on the Determinants of Population Growth and Decline.

Some Examples of Demographic Change.

Population Growth in the Periphery.

Wealth Flows Theory.

The Social Implications of Wealth Flows Theory.

The Question of Gender and Power.

Problems and Prospects.

6. Hunger, Poverty, and Economic Development.

The Evolution of Food Production: From the Neolithic to the Neocaloric.

From Gathering and Hunting to the Neolithic.

Capitalism and Agriculture.

The Neocaloric and the Green Revolution.

The Politics of Hunger.

The Anatomy of Famine.

The Anatomy of Endemic Hunger.

Solutions to Poverty and Hunger.

Economic Development.

Foreign Aid: The Case of Russia.

Targeting Vulnerable Populations: The Grameen Bank and Microcredit.

7. Environment and Consumption.

The Case of Sugar.

Sugar Origins and Production.

Uses of Sugar.

The Development of the Sugar Complex.

The Expansion of Sugar Consumption.

The Mass Consumption of Sugar.

Modern Sugar.

The Story of Beef.

The Ascendancy of Beef.

The Emergence of the American Beef Industry.

Modern Beef.

The Internationalization of the Hamburger.

Environmentally Sustainable Cattle Raising.

Exporting Pollution.

8. Disease.

A Primer on How to Die of an Infectious Disease.

The Relationships between Culture and Disease.

Gathering and Hunting to Early Agriculture.

“Graveyards of Mankind.”

Diseases of Environmental Change.

AIDS and the Culture of Capitalism.

How Did the Disease Spread?

Who Gets Infected with AIDS?

Who Gets Blamed?

9. Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Conflict.

The Fate of Indigenous Peoples.

Some Characteristics of Indigenous Peoples.

The Process of Ethnocide.

The Guaraní: The Economics of Ethnocide.

History and Background.

Contemporary Development and Guaraní Communities.

Disadvantaged Majorities and their Revenge.

Leveling Crowds.

Genocide as an Externality of the Market.

Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia.

Genocide in Rwanda.

III. RESISTANCE AND REBELLION.

Introduction to Part Three: A Primer on “Terrorism.”

10. Peasant Protest, Rebellion, and Resistance.

Malaysia and the Weapons of the Weak.

Malaysian Peasants and the Green Revolution.

Fighting Back.

Obstacles to Resistance.

Protest and Change.

Kikuyu and the Mau Mau Rebellion.

The British in East Africa.

The White Highlands.

The Roots of the Rebellion.

The Rebellion.

“State of Emergency.”

The Oath and the Detention Camps.

Independence.

The Rebellion in Chiapas.

Poverty and Inequality in Chiapas.

The Rebellion and the Global Economy.

The Revolt and the Reaction of the Mexican Government.

The Future of Peasants.

11. Antisystemic Protest.

Protest as Antisystemic: The Two World Revolutions.

The Revolution of 1848.

The Revolution of 1968.

The Protests of Labor: Coal Miners in Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania.

The Coal Industry and the Worker's Life.

Worker Resistance and Protest.

Destroying Worker Resistance.

Global Feminist Resistance.

Gender Relations in the Culture of Capitalism.

Strategies of Protest.

Ecological Resistance Movements.

Earthfirst!

Chipko and the Tragedy of the Commons.

12. Religion and Antisystemic Protest.

Indigenous Religious Movements as Protest.

The Ghost Dance.

The Cargo Cults.

Zionism in South Africa.

The Global Challenge of Antisystemic Religious Protest.

Islamic Fundamentalism.

Protestant Fundamentalism in North America.

Terror in the Mind of God.

Some Examples of Religious Violence.

The Militants of Protestant Fundamentalism.

Terror in the Holy Land.

Armageddon in a Tokyo Subway.

Understanding Religious Violence.

13. The Construction of the Citizen-Activist.

What Are the Real Dangers?

The GNP and the Construction of the Doctrine of Perpetual Growth.

The Depletion of Natural Capital.

The Depletion of Political Capital.

The Depletion of Social Capital.

Capital and Public Policy.

Constructing the Citizen Activist.

Indices and Goals for Well-being.

The Means and Prospects for Change: Attaining Zero Economic Growth.

Rebuilding and Maintaining Natural Capital.

Restoring Political Capital.

Rebuilding Social Capital.

Conclusions.

References.

Index.

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ISBN-10: 0205524877 | ISBN-13: 9780205524877
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This award-winning text explores one of the most successful cultures and societies the world has ever seen—capitalism.

From capitalism's European roots more than 500 years ago to the present, this text examines the problems caused by its expansion, inequality, environmental destruction, and social unrest.

Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism provides any reader with the anthropological, economic, and historical framework to understand the origins of global problems, why globalization and the global expansion of the culture of capitalism has generated protest and resistance, and the steps necessary to solve global problems.

Up-to-date information throughout the text helps students maintain a current view of the rapidity of global change.

As one reviewer says, “In today's world of global cultures the key to solving the problems of the future depends on understanding the cultures of today. Robbins' book spells this out in clear and easy-to-read prose. It is the one book that every college student should be required to read.”

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This award-winning text explores one of the most successful cultures and societies the world has ever seen—capitalism.

The Third Edition of Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism provides the reader with the anthropological, economic, and historical framework to understand the origins of global problems, why globalization and the global expansion of the culture of capitalism have generated protest and resistance, and the steps necessary to solve global problems. Up-to-date information throughout the text helps students maintain a current view of the rapidity of global change. As one reviewer writes, “In today's world of global cultures the key to solving the problems of the future depends on understanding the cultures of today. Robbins' book spells this out in clear and easy-to-read prose. It is the one book that every college student should be required to read.”

Special Features:

Takes a student-oriented, problem-based approach, focusing on social problems such as hunger, poverty, environmental devastation, disease, gender issues, and social conflict.
Helps students to understand the cultural roots of global problems and the changes that are necessary if these problems are to be solved.
The concluding chapter, “Constructing the Citizen-Activist,” provides students with ways to conceptualize social activism.
A discussion of economic development gives students a perspective on the problems inherent with economic development schemes (Chapter 6).
New material on terrorism (Chapters 11 and 13) and slavery in the global economy (Chapter 2) addresses issues relevant to the world today.
Expanded discussion of ethnic conflict and genocide (Chapter 10) and the role and meaning of money (Chapter 1, 2, 3, and 4) and privatization of the military (Chapter 4) allows for more in- depth classroom discussion.
Expanded introductions to Parts I, II, and III.

Also Available:
Talking Points on Global Issues Reader, Second Edition by Richard Robbins.
This reader contains twenty-nine readings that correspond to the chapters of the text and is designed to promote discussion and thought on global issues that have a direct bearing on our everyday lives. AVAILABLE FREE when packaged with the text using Package ISBN: 0-205-44488-1

Companion Website:
This site, regularly updated by the author, offers additional readings; an extensive list of Websites on global concerns, including links to resources on countries, corporations, global media, and maps; a “global updates” page that features links to news stories and articles on emerging global issues; course syllabi, course assignments and exercises, discussion questions, and more! Visit www.ablongman.com/robbins3e.

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