Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:04:45 -0600 (MDT)
From: walter putnam <wputnam-AT-unm.edu>
Subject: Re: capitalism (Was: Hegel and Postcolonialism)




If you read French (translations may exist), try Jacques Marseille *Empire
colonial et capitalisme francais* or Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch's many
works, esp. the case study *Le Congo au temps des grandes compagnies
concessionnaires*.  Otherwise, Walter Rodney's polemical *How Europe
Underdeveloped Africa* is still good reading (and very readable by
non-economists).

On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 TABRON-AT-BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU wrote:

> On a similar topic, can anyone recommend a book on the economic basis of
> colonialism (perhaps as it is related to capitalism, though that's not
> crucial)? I've always regarded one of the defining characteristics of a
> colonial relationship between nations to be the economic exploitation of one
> nation by another, but I don't think I could name a single work where I
> actually got this idea (perhaps I made it up.)
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Judith Tabron
> Brandeis University
> 
> >Istvan Meszaros in _Beyond Capital_ attends to the organization of global
> >capital, which is more neo-colonial than post-colonial, I guess, and his
> >book goes into great detail in terms of its analysis of Hegel and the
> >flaws of his universalizing system.
> >
> >Hope this helps.
> >
> >-mark
> 
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