Globalization and the Race for Resources

Stephen G. Bunker (1944-2005) was a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Paul S. Ciccantell is an associate professor of sociology at Western Michigan University.

• List of Figures and TablesPreface: Finding the Global in the LocalChapter 1. Matter, Space, Time, and Globalization: An IntroductionChapter 2. Globalizing Economies of Scale in the Sequence of Amazonian Extractive SystemsChapter 3. Between Nature and Society: How Technology Drives GlobalizationChapter 4. Bulky Goods and Industrial Organization in Early CapitalismChapter 5. From Wood to Steel: British-American Interdependent Expansion across the Atlantic and around the GlobeChapter 6. Raw Materials and Transport in the Economic Ascendancy of JapanChapter 7. ConclusionReferencesIndex

There is much to merit to the authors' contribution. -- Pierre Desrochers Historical Geography 2007