Erasing the Binary Distinction of Developed and Underdeveloped

ISBN-13: 9781032567402 / Twarda / 2023 / 417 str.

Vinay Bahl

Opis

Through a sample comparative historical study focusing on the question of the emergence of the large-scale steel industry (1880-1914) of four chosen countries it is shown how the yardstick of parity can be applied without the categorization of societies as either developed or underdeveloped.

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

SECTION I • Defining and Explaining the Problem

1 • Spurious and Misleading Binary Distinction

SECTION II • A Possible Alternative Perspective

2 • Erasing the Binary Distinction

SECTION III • Applying the Alternative Perspective

3 • Interaction and Conjunction of International Historical Forces, 1800–1913

4 • The Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in Imperial Russia, 1880–1914

5 • The (Non)Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in Imperial Britain, 1880–1914

6 • The Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in Post-Colonial Imperial US, 1880–1914

7 • The Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in India Under British Colonial Rule, 1880–191

SUMMARY AND OBSERVATIONS

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About the Author

Abstract

O autorze

Vinay Bahl, presently a non-affiliated research scholar, taught historical sociology in the United States for many years. She received her Ph.D. degree in Sociology from Binghamton University, New York and M. Phil degree in Modern Indian History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She was an invited guest scholar of the College de France, Paris, for one academic year. She was also an Associate Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Amsterdam.