Biomass, Capitalism, and Hegemony
How did Europeans achieve global dominance and continue to satisfy their ever-growing needs? How do we explain the effects this has on the rest of the world? In his magnum opus, published here in English for the first time as an open access book, world-renowned critical development scholar Benoit D...
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| description | How did Europeans achieve global dominance and continue to satisfy their ever-growing needs? How do we explain the effects this has on the rest of the world? In his magnum opus, published here in English for the first time as an open access book, world-renowned critical development scholar Benoit Daviron blends Braudelian history and a food systems approach to show how biomass--as the metabolism of societies and as a source of matter and energy--explains key historical phases of Western capitalist hegemony and the transitions between them. By examining various uses of biomass, technical production and extraction methods, forms of labour mobilization, and exchange systems, Daviron provides startling new insights into capitalist development from the 16th century to the present. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of critical approaches to global development, and for anyone interested in how capitalist domination came to be and how the bio-meatabolic imbalances it created might be redressed. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1514012025-05-13T04:14:32Z Biomass, Capitalism, and Hegemony Daviron, Benoit biomass capitalism capitalist hegemony critical development studies critical development international political economy Braudelian history food systems technical production extractivism extraction methods labour mobilization exchange systems capitalist development development of capitalism How did Europeans achieve global dominance and continue to satisfy their ever-growing needs? How do we explain the effects this has on the rest of the world? In his magnum opus, published here in English for the first time as an open access book, world-renowned critical development scholar Benoit Daviron blends Braudelian history and a food systems approach to show how biomass--as the metabolism of societies and as a source of matter and energy--explains key historical phases of Western capitalist hegemony and the transitions between them. By examining various uses of biomass, technical production and extraction methods, forms of labour mobilization, and exchange systems, Daviron provides startling new insights into capitalist development from the 16th century to the present. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of critical approaches to global development, and for anyone interested in how capitalist domination came to be and how the bio-meatabolic imbalances it created might be redressed. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. 2025-02-16T14:14:30Z 2025-02-16T14:14:30Z 2025-01-27T16:38:53Z 2024 book ONIX_20250127_9781350443266_3 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/97990 9781350443266 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/151401 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/97990/1/9781350443266_PDF.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/97990/1/9781350443266_PDF.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781350443273 10.5040/9781350443273 f75587da-2374-4722-9d42-9fffa7fa3f92 9781350443266 Bloomsbury Academic 424 London open access |
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