The End of Development : A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 14 - Geography and Environmental Studies
- Output identifier
- 102702401
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Zed Books
- ISBN
- 9781786990204
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This book works across global and millennial scales. Tracing the long arc of human history, from hunter-gatherers to twenty-first century globalization, this volume advances a critical geographical understanding of uneven development. Environmental determinism and eurocentrisim are rejected as explanation for inequality and the analysis illustrates how capitalism produced spaces of prosperity and poverty. As the arguments move towards the present the evidence narrows in scope and draws on fieldwork in sub-Saharan Africa - political protests in Malawi, the BRICS in Mozambique and the resource curse in Nigeria - to argue for radical alternatives to the failures of development.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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