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Author Patel, Raj, author.

Title A history of the world in seven cheap things [electronic resource] / a guide to capitalism, nature, and the future of the planet / Raj Patel, Jason W. Moore.

Publication Information Oakland : University of California Press, 2018.
Description 328 pages : 2 b/w maps, 4 charts, 3 figures, 1 table
20180912
Note Single user licence.
Summary Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism. At a time of crisis in all seven cheap things, innovative and systemic thinking is urgently required. This book proposes a radical new way of understanding--and reclaiming--the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century.
Form Also available in printed form ISBN 9780520299931
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject History
General & world history
Social & cultural anthropology
Conservation of the environment
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Moore, Jason W., author.
ISBN 9780520966376 (e-book) 9780520299931