{"product_id":"the-westernization-of-the-world-significance-scope-and-limits-of-the-drive-towards-global-uniformity-paperback","title":"The Westernization of the World: Significance, Scope and Limits of the Drive Towards Global Uniformity - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSerge Latouche\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis provocative new book argues that the rise of the West to world domination has brought widespread social, cultural and material destruction in its wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSerge Latouche is one of Europe's leading authorities on the political economy of the Third World. In this provocative new book, he argues that the historical rise of the West to world domination has brought widespread destruction in its wake. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLatouche suggests that the drive towards global uniformity - of cultures, lifestyles and mentalities - has been the cause of untold political and economic disasters: ruined industries, widespread national debt, endless coups d'\u0026amp;Eacutetat, endemic civil wars, and the erosion of all non-western cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLatouche mounts a powerful critique of the western concept of Third World 'development'. He argues that it has become synonymous with the accumulation of capital and is driven by specifically western values: technical progress, universalism and the mystery of nature - values which ought to be called into question. Oppressed people, he claims, want nothing to do with this kind of development: they aspire simply to survive, and if possible to live well, according to their own values and cultural choices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis challenging and iconoclastic book will be essential reading for students and researchers in development studies, sociology, politics, and the economics of development.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSerge Latouche\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Paris XI.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 9.03 x 6.03 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42688807534655,"sku":"9780745614298","price":42.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/123e02de1993dbf8f9f68c6b16394c00.webp?v=1764983380","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-westernization-of-the-world-significance-scope-and-limits-of-the-drive-towards-global-uniformity-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}