Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital

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Cover Half title Title Copyright Contents List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part I: Conceptual Issues: Human Development and Capitalist Growth 1 History of Human Development as the Subject of History 2 Construction of the European Miracle 3 Profit Seeking under Actually Existing Capitalism and Human Development Part II: Capitalist Competition and Human Development in Europe 4 Race for Dominance among the Western European Countries since the Sixteenth Century 5 Population Growth and Mortality between the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A First Look 6 The Netherlands: Rise and Fall of a Hegemonic Power 7 Delayed Transition to a Low-Mortality Regime in Europe and North America 8 Literacy in Western Europe since the Sixteenth Century Part III: The World beyond Europe in the Age of Emergence of European Dominance 9 China’s Economic Development and Quality of Life between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries 10 India under Mughal Rule and After 11 Conducting Trade in Asia before and after the European Advent 12 Reconsidering Japanese Exceptionalism 13 Capitalist Competition, Colonialism, and the Physical Well-Being of Non-European Peoples 14 Civilizing Mission and Racialization: From Native Americans to Asians 15 Civilizing Mission in Lands Taken by European Settlers from the Original Inhabitants 16 Intercontinental Resource Flows Sustaining the Ascent of the European Powers 17 Colonial Tribute and Profits, 1870s Onward 18 Demographic Disasters in the Colonies and Semicolonies in the Heyday of European Colonialism Part IV: The Twentieth Century: Antisystemic Struggles, Wars, and Challenges to Global Capital 19 Setting the Stage for Megawars 20 Revolution, Nazism, Japanese Militarism, and World War II 21 Imperialism and Wars in the Late Twentieth Century 22 Capitalism and Uneven Development in the Twentieth Century 23 Destruction and Renewal in the Neoliberal Global Order 24 Contradictions, Challenges, and Resistance References Index About the Author