| Globalization and the Race for Resources Contributor(s): Bunker, Stephen G. (Author), Ciccantell, Paul S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801882435 ISBN-13: 9780801882432 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2005 Annotation: Globalization and the Race for Resources explores how five nations-Portugal, the Netherlands, Britain, the United States, and Japan-achieved trade dominance by devising technologies, social and financial institutions, and markets to enhance their access to raw materials. Through ecological and economic explanation of resource extraction and production, Stephen G. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell reveal globalization as the result of the progressive extension of systematically integrated material processes across cumulatively greater space. Drawing from extensive historical research into how economic and environmental dynamics interacted in the extraction of different materials in the Amazon, especially in the development of the iron mine of Carajas, the authors also illustrate the profound connection between global dominance and control of natural resources. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Globalization - Nature | Natural Resources |
| Dewey: 333.7 |
| LCCN: 2005006240 |
| Series: Themes in Global Social Change |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.09" W x 9.04" (0.86 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Globalization and the Race for Resources explores how five nations--Portugal, the Netherlands, Britain, the United States, and Japan--achieved trade dominance by devising technologies, social and financial institutions, and markets to enhance their access to raw materials. Through ecological and economic explanation of resource extraction and production, Stephen G. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell reveal globalization as the result of the progressive extension of systematically integrated material processes across cumulatively greater space. Drawing from extensive historical research into how economic and environmental dynamics interacted in the extraction of different materials in the Amazon, especially in the development of the iron mine of Carajas, the authors also illustrate the profound connection between global dominance and control of natural resources. |
