Europe and the People Without History

WOLF, Eric R.

ISBN 10: 0520048989 / ISBN 13: 9780520048980

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1982

About this Item

First edition. Trade paperback. Cartographic illustrations by Noël L. Diaz. 503pp. A few pages with highlighting, wrappers lightly flared with corners slightly fraying, spine sunned, still very good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Europe and the People Without History
• Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley
• Publication Date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0520048989
• ISBN 13: 9780520048980
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Offering insight and equal consideration into the societies of the "civilized" and "uncivilized" world,Europe and the People Without History deftly explores the historical trajectory of so-called modern globalization. In this foundational text about the development of the global political economy, Eric R. Wolf challenges the long-held anthropological notion that non-European cultures and peoples were isolated and static entities before the advent of European colonialism and imperialism. Ironically referred to as "the People Without History" by Wolf, these societies before active colonization possessed perpetually changing, reactionary cultures and were indeed just as intertwined into the processes of the pre-Columbian global economic system as their European counterparts. Utilizing Marxian concepts and a vivid consideration for the importance of history, Wolf judiciously traces the effects and conditions in Europe and the rest of the "known" world, beginning in 1400 AD, that allowed capitalism to emerge as the dominant ideology of the modern era.

About the Author

Eric R. Wolf (1923–1999) was Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Herbert H. Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York.