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An Introduction to the Sociology of 'Developing Societies'

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  • © 1982

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Editors:
  1. Hamza Alavi
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  2. Teodor Shanin
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Part of the book series: Sociology of Developing Societies (SDS)

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Table of contents (35 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Hamza Alavi, Teodor Shanin
      Pages 1-8

  3. The Making of the Third World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Imperialism: A Historical Survey

      • Harry Magdoff
      Pages 11-28

    3. The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis

      • Immanuel Wallerstein
      Pages 29-53

    4. The Origins of Capitalist Development: A Critique of Neo-Smithian Marxism

      • Robert Brenner
      Pages 54-71

    5. Colonialism in the Words of Its Contemporaries

      • Cecil Rhodes, Jules Harmand, Albert Beveridge, Joseph Conrad, James Connolly
      Pages 72-77

    6. The Losers

      • Eric Hobsbawm
      Pages 78-80

    7. Colonialism’s Last Days: The “Emergency” in Malaya

      • Han Suyin
      Pages 81-84

    8. Colonialism’s Last Days: An Orderly Decolonization in Malawi

      • Hamza Alavi, Teodor Shanin
      Pages 85-87

    9. White-Settler Colonialism and the Myth of Investment Imperialism

      • Arghiri Emmanuel
      Pages 88-106

  4. The Global Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Pathways of Social Development: A Brief Against Suprahistorical Theory

      • Karl Marx
      Pages 109-111

    3. Dependency and Development in Latin America

      • Fernando Henrique Cardoso
      Pages 112-127

    4. The Multinational Corporation and the Law of Uneven Development

      • Stephen Hymer
      Pages 128-152

    5. Developing Societies as Part of an International Political Economy

      • Michael Barratt Brown
      Pages 153-171

    6. The Structure of Peripheral Capitalism

      • Hamza Alavi
      Pages 172-192

  5. Political Economy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    2. A Morphology of Backwardness

      • Paul A. Baran
      Pages 195-204

    3. The Disarticulation of Economy Within “Developing Societies”

      • Samir Amin
      Pages 205-209
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