Globalization and the Race for Resources
Department
Sociology
Document Type
Book
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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.
Call number in WMU's library
HC85 .B86 2005
ISBN
978-0801882432
Publication Date
2005
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
City
Baltimore
Disciplines
Sociology
Citation for published book
Bunker, Stephen G., and Paul S. Ciccantell. Globalization and the Race for Resources / Stephen G. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell. 2005. Print. Themes in Global Social Change.
Recommended Citation
Bunker, Stephen G. and Ciccantell, Paul, "Globalization and the Race for Resources" (2005). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 627.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/627