ISBN-13: 9780415392662 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 217 str.
First published in 1978, this classic work concentrates on the role of developing nations in the fifty years preceding the first world war. These regions, it argues, were instrumental in the evolution of the world economy. Indeed it could not have evolved in the manner that it did without them. Latham points to the fact that the so-called free-trade era was unsustainable without the developing countries, without which Europe and America would have had to make fundamental readjustments.