Free Download Samee Lashari, "The Rise of the Semi-Core: China, India, and Pakistan in the World-System"
English | ISBN: 1666942863 | 2024 | 358 pages | PDF | 37 MB
Since its establishment in Europe, capitalism has witnessed a shift in global politico-economic power dynamics. Some nations ascended to dominate the world economy, while others fell from prominence to poverty. This transformation was particularly evident in the case of China and India, which were once central to the pre-modern global economy with their respective empires but transitioned into peripheries of the capitalist world trade structure. These regions experienced occupation, colonization, de-industrialization, and resource exploitation for the industrialization and modernization of core countries, primarily Western Europe and the United States.
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