Blaut and more

[Mark Jones]

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The CrashList website is currently being reconstructed but the following articles which bear on Origination of Capitalism debates are still archived:   The Rise of the West -- or Not critique of Eurocentrism by Professor Jack Goldstone Introduction to Goldstone Debating Andre Gunder Frank's "Reorient"   Papers by James Blaut Colonialism And The Rise Of Capitalism Environmentalism And Eurocentrism Geography And The Colonizer's Model Of The World TheTheory of Cultural Racism Marxism And Eurocentric Diffusionism Psychology and Explanation World Models and Worldly Interests Evaluating Imperialism   Other papers   The Invention of Capitalism Michael Perelman on 'primitive accumulation'. Natural Instability of Markets excerpts from Michael Perelman's forthcoming book.   Prologue from Arno Mayer 's great book, Politics & Diplomacy of the Peacemaking: Versailles 1919-1921, anatomising an earlier bout of bourgeois civil war Workshop Of The World by Raphael Samuel. Unmissable account of life and labour in Victorian England from the great radical historian. Introduction to Raphael Samuel   The Soviet Grain Crisis of 1932: Whose fault? by R.W.Davies, M.B.Tauger and S.G.Wheatcroft. Was the Ukraine famine avoidable? Did Stalin deliberately condemn millions to death? Niche Construction, Biological Evolution and Cultural Change On the evolutionary framework of the human sciences, by Laland, Kevin N., Odling-Smee, John and Feldman, Marcus W. Climate catastrophes Mikhail Budyko (State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation) Caring for Creation Sermon by Sir Ghillean Prance, former Director of theRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and now Scientific Director of the Eden Project. Papers on Energy and Capitalist Crisis UNPD2000 UN statistics comparing living standards and human development (MS Excel format) Aggregation and the role of energy in the economy by Cutler J. Cleveland, Robert K. Kaufmann, David I. Stern Energy and Equity IvanIllich'sclassic 1973 article on environmental justice, bicycles and more Rising Asian Oil Demand and Caspian Reserves by Plamen Tonchev (obscure but important) Wittfogel and the Asiatic Mode of production The End of Big Oil? Notes on Oil and the Economy Immanent Limits to Growth? Liebig's Law and the limits to growth The ecology of capitalist intersubjectivity Protocapitalism Vanguards, Alfred Sohn-Rethel and Frederick Winslow Taylor Notes on capitalist growth, exosomatic energy, and the relevance of Rousseau