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Biomass, capitalism, and hegemony : a rich and powerful history / Benoit Daviron
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Original language: French Publisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:- 9781350443266
- 9781350443259
- 9781350443273
- Biomasse
- 338.094 23/eng/20240911
- HD9018.W46
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Summary: "In this open access magnum opus, published here in English for the first time, world-renowned critical development scholar Benoit Daviron blends Braudelian history and a food systems approach to show how biomass underpins the key historical phases of Western capitalist hegemony and the transitions between them"--PPN: PPN: 1922675482Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
The united provinces : territories, resources and economic sectors -- The Baltics and the North Sea : the first peripheries -- Spices and companies : trade with another world-economy, Asia -- Mercantilism and the art of counting on your own forces -- Mobilizing resources from the national territory -- Distant biomass and social metabolism -- A portrait of an English hegemon as a biomass importer -- Overcoming "the tyranny of distance" : technical and institutional innovations -- The golden age of frontiers -- An intensive animal farming pole in Northwestern Europe -- On free labor -- And capital? Key for transport, negligible for agricultural production -- Germany : on a quest for an industrialization not dependent on long-distance biomass trade -- Imperialist strategies, the weapon of the weak : France and Japan -- The United States : from the legendary frontier to resolution of the long farm crisis -- The American model -- Uneven spread of the American model and the institutionalization of the Global North-South division -- International agricultural trade : limited, food-focused, and administered -- The second age of American hegemony -- Reorienting the world -- The "oil-based model" of biomass production and consumption pursues its global conquest -- The incomplete globalization of agricultural markets.
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