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In the Mirror of the Third World

In the Mirror of the Third World

Capitalist Development in Modern Europe

by Sandra Halperin
Paperback
Publication Date: 13/05/1997

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In Marx's familiar dictum, the more-developed country shows the less developed an image of its own future. Turning this idea upside down, In the Mirror of the Third World looks to the contemporary Third World for a reflection of European history. The resulting view challenges standard accounts of European social, economic, and political development. Sandra Halperin's analysis of the European experience begins where studies of Third World development often start: considering the legacies of colonial domination. Europe also had a colonial past, she reminds us, and the states of Europe, like those of today's Third World, were the product of colonialism and imperialism. From this starting point, Halperin traces features characteristic of Third World development through the history of European capitalism: enclave economies oriented to foreign markets; weak middle classes; alliances among the state, traditional landowning elites, and new industrial classes; unstable and partial democracy; sharp inequalities; and increasing poverty-all as much a part of European society on the eve of World War I as they are of developing countries today.
Halperin also emphasizes the emergence of a militant, literal religion in Europe and its critical role in the class struggles of the nineteenth century.
ISBN:
9780801482908
9780801482908
Category:
Development studies
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
13-05-1997
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cornell University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x21mm
Weight:
0.45kg

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