Synopses & Reviews
This book brings together key, incisive writings (published and unpublished) of the late Andre Gunder Frank on world development and world history in a singular volume. The selections provide the reader with a historical tracing of Gunder Franks conceptual thinking on development from the national liberation struggles of the 1950s -1960s through to his views on world history, world development and globalization in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The latter period witnessed his rethinking of world development and the rejection of theoretical positions he had taken in the 1960s and 1970s. Pertinent writings during the last phase of his intellectual career addressing the impact of Eurocentrism on the understanding of world development and world history, the mythology of European exceptionalism, and the rise of Asia are included.
Synopsis
The mutually energizing and often volatile friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson-unexplored in depth by scholars until this study-was one of the last century's remarkable political alliances. Both Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt shared a view of politics as a moral enterprise, one in which the fulfillment of its "mission" was the betterment of the human condition. This belief was the foundation upon which their legislative initiatives were constructed. Employing letters and diaries as well as contemporary media accounts, this book examines the perspectives, the convictions, the style, and the spirit that both principals brought to the calling of public service.
About the Author
Sing C. Chew is Professor at Humboldt State University and senior research scientist in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany. He is co-Editor of Andre Gunder Franks Festschrift, The Underdevelopment of Development. He is the founding editor of the interdisciplinary journal, Nature and Culture. His most recent book is Ecological Futures: What History Can Teach Us, a trilogy on Nature-Culture relations over world history of which the first two volumes are: World Ecological Degradation and The Recurring Dark Ages.
Pat Lauderdale is Professor of Justice at Arizona State University, and currently is a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University. His recent publications include a special issue of the Journal of Developing Societies celebrating the work of Andre Gunder Frank, research on the world system from a Frankian perspective, global indigenous struggles, and a new book on state and international terrorism, Terrorism: A New Testament, with Annamarie Oliverio. He continues his research on the analyses of globalization, nation-statism, rational capitalism, and concentration of power in the post-colonial world by focusing upon cracks in the armor of the dominant western paradigm.
Table of Contents
Section A: On National Development: The Development of Underdevelopment * Introduction 1: Sing C. Chew and Pat Lauderdale * Chapter 1: Andre Gunder Frank (1966) The Development of Underdevelopment * Chapter 2: Andre Gunder Frank (1967) The Sociology of Development and the Underdevelopment of Sociology * Section B: From National Development to World Development: The Underdevelopment of Development * Introduction 2: Sing C. Chew and Pat Lauderdale * Reconceptualization of Theory and World History * Chapter 3: Andre Gunder Frank (1991) Transitional Ideological Modes: Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism * Chapter 4: Andre Gunder Frank with Barry Gills (2002) A Structural Theory of the Five Thousand Year World System * Chapter 5: Andre Gunder Frank (1991) A Plea for World System History * Introduction 3: Sing C. Chew and Pat Lauderdale * Beyond Eurocentrism, Systems Transformation, and Social Movements * Chapter 6: Andre Gunder Frank with Barry Gills (1992) The Five Thousand Year World System: An Interdisciplinary Introduction * Chapter 7 Andre Gunder Frank (1994) The World Economic System in Asia Before European Hegemony * Chapter 8 Andre Gunder Frank (2005) Debunk Mythology, ReOrient Reality * Chapter 9: Andre Gunder Frank with Marta Fuentes (1990) Social Movements