Globalization and the Race for Resources

by Stephen G. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell

Book Overview

Globalization and the Race for Resources explores how five nations--Portugal, the Netherlands, Britain, the United States, and Japan--achieved trade dominance by devising technologies, social and financial institutions, and markets to enhance their access to raw materials.

Through ecological and economic explanation of resource extraction and production, Stephen G. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell reveal globalization as the result of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801882435
• ISBN13: 9780801882432
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"