Cores, Peripheries, and Globalization

290 Pages·2011·3.404 MB·English

by  Peter Hanns Reill, Balazs A. Szelenyi

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Cores,
PeriPheries, and
Globalization
Essays in Honor of Ivan T. Berend
edited by
Peter hanns reill
and
balázs a. szelényi
Central european University Press
budapest–new York
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© 2011 by Peter hanns reill and balázs a. szelényi
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Cores, peripheries, and globalization : essays in honor of ivan berend / edited by
Peter hanns reill and balázs a. szelényi.
p. cm.
includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-6155053023 (hardbound)
1. Globalization. 2. regional disparities. 3. regional economics. 4. dependency.
5. neoliberalism. i. berend, iván. ii. reill, Peter hanns. iii. szelényi, balázs a.
hF1365.C67 2011
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table of Contents
Preface and acknowledgements ......................... vii
introduction........................................ 1
section 1: oriGins and theoretiCal disCUssions
oF Core-PeriPherY relations ................... 13
ChaPter 1: the latin american Contribution to Center–Periphery
Perspectives: history and Prospect, Joseph L. Love ........... 15
ChaPter 2: From Plantation to Plant: slavery, the slave trade,
and the industrial revolution, Jean Batou.................. 43
ChaPter 3: theories and realities: What are the Causes of
backwardness? DanieL Chirot.......................... 63
ChaPter 4: development Possible? Possible developments:
a research agenda, immanueL WaLLerstein................ 73
section 2: FroM the eUroPean PeriPherY to
the Core and baCK ............................. 85
ChaPter 5: between Center and Periphery, eugene WeBer..... 87
ChaPter 6: Core, Periphery, and Civil society,
Jürgen KoCKa...................................... 97
ChaPter 7: Conceptions and Constructions: east Central
europe in economic history, heLga sChuLz................ 113
ChaPter 8: liberal economic nationalism in eastern europe
during the First Wave of Globalization (1860–1914),
thomas DaviD and eLisaBeth spiLman ................... 127
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ChaPter 9: the rise and the Fall of the second
Bildungsbürgertum, iván szeLényi ........................ 165
section 3: Globalization: its historY,
natUre and ProbleMs........................... 183
ChaPter 10: Globalization, Core, and Periphery in the World
economy of the late Middle ages and early Modern times,
herman van Der Wee ................................ 185
ChaPter 11: the Pre-history of Core–Periphery,
roBert Brenner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
ChaPter 12: Globalization and its impact on Core–Periphery
relations: Characteristics of Globalization, ivan t. BerenD...... 233
ChaPter 13: From West european to World science:
seventeenth–twentieth Centuries, eriC J. hoBsBaWm.......... 255
notes on Contributors ................................ 271
index of names and Places ............................. 275
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Preface and acknowledgements
this volume honoring ivan t. berend had its origins in a two day con-
ference organized by robert brenner, Peter reill and balázs szelényi
to celebrate Prof. berend’s 75th birthday. From there it grew into the
present volume after the editors thought it worthwhile to expand the
scope of the conference and invite other eminent scholars to contribute
to the volume. the response was great and the new essays did much to
expand the topics covered in the conference and to include other and
sometimes competing scholarly positions and approaches. the origi-
nal conference was organized by UCla’s Center for seventeenth- and
eighteenth-Century studies with help from UCla’s Center for euro-
pean and eurasian studies. it was held at UCla’s William andrews
Clark Memorial library. the editors would like to thank the very help-
ful staff of the Center for seventeenth and eighteenth-Century studies
and the Clark library who helped make the conference a great suc-
cess. We also would like to recognize the outstanding editorial work
provided to us by ellen Wilson, whose suggestions were always to the
point. she helped enormously to shape the volume. Finally, we would
like to acknowledge the major role played in publishing the volume by
the Central european University Press and especially by linda Kunos
who served as our point person in the book’s publication. CeU Press
responded quickly to our proposal, read the manuscript carefully and
quickly and produced it with dispatch and elegance. though the con-
ference celebrated ivan berend at 75, the publication will appear as he
is about to turn 80. it is our small way of saying thank you to a major
scholar of the modern period.
Peter hanns reill balázs szelényi
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introduction
over the past few years, globalization has become an extremely con-
tentious concept, capable of fomenting violent discussion and even po-
litical action as the protests and riots at meetings of the World trade
organization and the european Union have demonstrated. though
generating much heat, the concept itself is vague, with often contradic-
tory meanings. What is globalization? When did it begin? What gov-
erns the relations between economic and social units within a global-
ized system and how can these relations be determined? to what ex-
tent is globalization a product of unchecked capitalism? Can globaliza-
tion’s negative effects be alleviated by modifications within capitalism
or not? if not, then by whom will needed modifications be introduced
and what form will they take? these are just some of the questions
that perplex those who seek an understanding of the phenomenon, an
understanding which obviously has direct policy and political implica-
tions. the essays in this volume cannot give direct answers to these
questions. they do, however, place the debate in a broader and more
vital context that locates globalization within an analysis of its essential
dynamics—economic, social, political, and cultural—between metro-
politan areas and their peripheries. as herman van der Wee remarks in
his essay: “‘Core’ and ‘periphery,’ considered in economic terms, are
more complex than ‘globalization.’ they are linked with the concepts
of ‘dependence’ and ‘interdependence,’ ‘equality’ and ‘inequality.’”
research on cores and peripheries has centered on the central
question of the nature of relations between developed areas and na-
tions, underdeveloped ones, and others that sometimes are called
emerging. the possible answers have been bracketed and influenced
by two contrasting “master” narratives of societal and economic de-
velopment, one derived from contemporary interpretations of adam
smith’s economic philosophy, usually labeled neo-liberalism, the other
inspired by concepts drawn from Marxist philosophy and called depen-
dency theory.
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