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Winner Take All Dambisa Moyo
ISBN: 978-1-84614-504-9 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: Penguin Books Ltd., Allen Lane Язык: Русский РазвернутьOur planet's resources are running out. The media bombards us with constant warnings of impending shortages of fossil fuels, minerals, arable land and water and the political Armageddon that will result as insatiable global demand far outstrips supply. But how true is this picture? In Winner Take All, Dambisa Moyo cuts through the misconceptions and noise surrounding resource scarcity with a penetrating analysis of what really is at stake. Revealing the hard facts behind the insatiable global demand for economic growth, Moyo shows how in this race for resources, China is way out in front. Tracing China's breathtaking quest for…
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Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South Andrew Zimmerman
ISBN: 978-0691155869 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: Princeton University Press РазвернутьIn 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose of transforming the region into a cotton economy similar to that of the post-Reconstruction American South. Alabama in Africa explores the politics of labor, sexuality, and race behind this endeavor, and the economic, political, and intellectual links connecting Germany, Africa, and the southern United States. The cross-fertilization of histories and practices led to the emergence of a global South, reproduced social inequities on both sides of the Atlantic, and pushed the American South and the…
