Biomass, Capitalism, and Hegemony

Biomass, Capitalism, and Hegemony

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Daviron Benoit
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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How did Europeans achieve global dominance and continue to satisfy their ever-growing needs? How do we explain the effects this has on the rest of the world?

In his magnum opus, published here in English for the first time as an open access book, world-renowned critical development scholar Benoit Daviron blends Braudelian history and a food systems approach to show how biomass--as the metabolism of societies and as a source of matter and energy--explains key historical phases of Western capitalist hegemony and the transitions between them. By examining various uses of biomass, technical production and extraction methods, forms of labour mobilization, and exchange systems, Daviron provides startling new insights into capitalist development from the 16th century to the present.

This book is essential reading for students and scholars of critical approaches to global development, and for anyone interested in how capitalist domination came to be and how the bio-meatabolic imbalances it created might be redressed.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

EAN 9781350443242
ISBN 1350443247
Binding Hardback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication date January 23, 2025
Pages 424
Language English
Dimensions 234 x 156
Country United Kingdom
Authors Daviron Benoit