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Re-Envisioning Global Development: A Horizontal Perspective

This book refines but also vastly extends and deepens earlier research in War and Social Change in Modern Europe: the great transformation revisited (CUP, 2004) and In the Mirror of the Third World: capitalist development in modern Europe (Cornell, 1997) by tracing how the synchronic and interdependent development of urban centres throughout the world has underpinned capitalist expansion over six centuries. Alongside this broad geographical and historical scope, it carefully elaborates an ontology of global development via transnational connections that challenges conventional accounts of capitalism’s origins, Europe’s agrarian and industrial revolutions, and the formation of nation-states and the global core/periphery.