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Why Europe by Charlie Stevens 26 February 2002 16:58 UTC |
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As BY noted, Marvin Harris did supply what continues to be called a "vulgar materialist" "explanation" for issues of development and progress that may have relevance to the question "why Europe...?" These are not, in my opinion, theoretical formulations currently at the forefront of developmental discourses in anthropology (see perhaps Arturo Escobar's Encountering Development for that). In addition to the recent Atlantic Monthly article mentioned previously (1491), there has been some positive consideration of Diamond, Jared M 1997 Guns, Germs, and Steel : the fates of human societies. New York : W.W. Norton which, I believe, has been discussed on this list in the past. With regard to (indirectly) "Why Europe" and, more directly, the immediate impact of European expansionism on the (particularly) North American continent, the dated James Axwell's 1981 The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial America. Then there is the always uplifting piece by Todorov, The Conquest of America.... Perhaps some hints to the question might be found in some old standbys as Maurice Dobb, Studies in the Development of Capitalism or Braudel's Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism or Part 3, Volume I of Myrdal's Asian Drama....? regards, Charlie Stevens
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