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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: the Consumer, the Laborer, the Capitalist, and the Nation-State in the Society of Perpetual Growth | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Primer on Money | |
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| Capitalism and the Making of the Consumer | |
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| Culture and the Construction of the Consumer | |
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| The Construction of the Consumer | |
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| Kinderculture in America: the Child as Consumer | |
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| The Role of Children in Capitalism | |
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| The Social Construction of Childhood | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Laborer in the Culture of Capitalism | |
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| A Primer on the Economic Elements of Capitalism | |
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| The Baptism of Money | |
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| The Construction and Anatomy of the Working Class | |
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| Characteristics of the Working Class | |
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| The Growth of Overseas Assembly Plants | |
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| The Creation of Free Labor | |
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| The Segmentation of the Workforce | |
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| Control and Discipline | |
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| Resistance and Rebellion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Rise of the Merchant, Industrialist, and Capital Controller | |
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| The Era of the Global Trader | |
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| A Trader's Tour of the World | |
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| The Economic Rise of Europe and Its Impact on Africa and the Americas | |
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| The Rise of the Trading Companies | |
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| The Era of the Industrialist | |
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| Textiles and the Rise of the Factory System | |
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| The Age of Imperialism | |
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| The Era of the Corporation, the Multilateral Institution, and the Capital Controller | |
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| The Rise of the Corporation | |
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| Bretton Woods and the World Debt | |
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| The Power of Capital Controllers | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Nation-State in the Culture of Capitalism | |
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| The Origin and History of the State | |
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| The Evolution of the State | |
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| The History and Function of the Nation-State | |
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| Constructing the Nation-State | |
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| Creating the Other | |
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| Language, Bureaucracy, and Education | |
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| Violence and Genocide | |
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| Spin, Free Trade, and the Role of Energy in the Global Economy | |
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| Manufacturing Consent: Spin | |
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| Markets and Free Trade | |
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| Energy and Technology | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Introduction: the Global Impact of the Culture of Capitalism | |
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| The Problem of Population Growth | |
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| The Malthusians versus the Revisionists | |
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| The Case of India and China | |
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| The Issue of Carrying Capacity | |
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| The Ideology of Malthusian Concerns | |
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| Demographic Transition Theory | |
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| A Primer on the Determinants of Population Growth and Decline | |
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| Some Examples of Demographic Change | |
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| Population Growth in the Periphery | |
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| Wealth Flows Theory | |
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| The Social Implications of Wealth Flows Theory | |
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| The Question of Gender and Power | |
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| Problems and Prospects | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Hunger, Poverty, and Economic Development | |
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| The Evolution of Food Production: From the Neolithic to the Neocaloric | |
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| From Gathering and Hunting to the Neolithic Capitalism and Agriculture | |
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| The Neocaloric and the Green Revolution | |
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| The Politics of Hunger | |
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| The Anatomy of Famine | |
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| The Anatomy of Endemic Hunger | |
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| Solutions and Adaptations to Poverty and Hunger | |
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| Economic Development | |
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| The Nature and Growth of the Informal Economy | |
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| The Nature and Scope of the Informal Economy of Drugs | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Environment and Consumption | |
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| The Case of Sugar | |
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| Sugar Origins and Production | |
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| Uses of Sugar | |
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| The Development of the Sugar Complex | |
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| The Expansion of Sugar Consumption | |
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| The Mass Consumption of Sugar | |
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| Modern Sugar | |
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| The Story of Beef | |
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| The Ascendancy of Beef | |
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| The Emergence of the American Beef Industry | |
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| Modern Beef | |
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| The Internationalization of the Hamburger | |
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| Environmentally Sustainable Cattle Raising | |
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| Exporting Pollution | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Disease | |
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| A Primer on How to Die of an Infectious Disease | |
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| The Relationships between Culture and Disease | |
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| Gathering and Hunting to Early Agriculture | |
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| "Graveyards of Mankind" | |
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| Diseases of Environmental Change | |
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| AIDS and the Culture of Capitalism | |
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| How Did the Disease Spread? | |
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| Who Gets Infected with AIDS? | |
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| Who Gets Blamed? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Indigenous People, Ethnic Groups, and the Nation-State | |
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| The Fate of Indigenous Peoples | |
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| Some Characteristics of Indigenous Peoples | |
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| The Process of Ethnocide | |
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| The Guaranü: the Economics of Ethnocide | |
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| History and Background | |
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| Contemporary Development and Guaranü Communities | |
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| Disadvantaged Majorities and Their Revenge | |
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| Leveling Crowds | |
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| Genocide and an Externality of the Market | |
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| "Ethnic Cleansing" in Yugoslavia | |
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| Genocide in Rwanda | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Introduction: Resistance and Rebellion | |
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| Peasant Protest, Rebellion, and Resistance | |
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| Malaysiaand the Weapons of the Weak | |
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| Malaysian Peasants and the Green Revolution | |
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| Fighting Back | |
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| Obstacles to Resistance | |
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| Protest and Change | |
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| Kikuyu and the Mau Mau Rebellion | |
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| The British in East Africa | |
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| The White Highlands | |
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| The Roots of the Rebellion | |
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| The Rebellion | |
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| "State of Emergency" | |
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| The Oath and the Detention Camps | |
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| Independence | |
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| The Rebellion in Chiapas | |
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| Poverty and Inequality in Chiapas | |
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| The Rebellion and the Global Economy | |
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| The Revolt and the Reaction of the Mexican Government \ | |
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| The Future of Peasants | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Antisystemic Protest | |
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| Protest as Antisystemic: the Two World Revolutions | |
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| The Revolution of 1848 | |
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| The Revolution of 1968 | |
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| The Protests of Labor: Coal Miners in Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania | |
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| The Coal Industry and the Worker's Life | |
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| Worker Resistance and Protest | |
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| Destroying Worker Resistance | |
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| Global Feminist Resistance | |
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| Gender Relations in the Culture of Capitalism | |
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| Strategies of Protest | |
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| Ecological Resistance Movements | |
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| Earthfirst! | |
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| Chipko and the Tragedy of the Commons | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Religion and Antisystemic Protest | |
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| Indigenous Religious Movements as Protest | |
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| The Ghost Dance | |
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| The Cargo Cults | |
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| Zionism in South Africa | |
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| The Global Challenge of Antisystemic Religious Protest | |
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| Islamic Fundamentalism | |
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| Protestant Fundamentalism in North America | |
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| Terror in the Mind of God | |
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| Some Examples of Religious Violence | |
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| The Militants of Protestant Fundamentalists | |
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| Terror in the Holy Land | |
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| Armageddon in a Tokyo Subway | |
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| Understanding Religious Violence | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Constructing the Citizen-Activist | |
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| What Are the Real Dangers? | |
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| The GNP and the Construction of the Doctrine of Perpetual Growth | |
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| The Depletion of Natural Capital | |
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| The Depletion of Political Capital | |
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| The Depletion of Social Capital | |
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| Capital and Public Policy | |
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| Constructing the Citizen-Activist | |
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| Indices and Goals for Well-Being | |
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| The Means and Prospects for Change: Attaining Zero Economic Growth | |
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| Rebuilding and Maintaining Natural Capital | |
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| Restoring Political Capital | |
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| Rebuilding Social Capital | |
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| Conclusion | |