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Product Description: Occidente gobierna el mundo desde hace tantos años que su supremacía le parece natural . Hasta tal punto forma parte de su identidad colectiva, que se puede hablar de una verdadera cultura sobre la que los occidentales continúan construyendo sus relaciones con el otro...read more

Product Description: This book gives a thorough history of colonial and developmentalist thought as it illustrates the West's relationship with those parts of the rest of the world it came to dominate. Bessis follows this trajectory, from the conquest of the Americas, through the slave trade and the scramble for Africa, the White Man's burden, Manifest Destiny and the growth of "scientific" racism, on to decolonization, the ideology of development, and structural adjustment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Sophie Bessis book gives a thorough history of colonial and developmentalist thought. Bessis tells the story of the West's relationship with those parts of the rest of the world it came to dominate. Bessis follows this trajectory, from the conquest of the Americas, through the slave trade and the scramble for Africa, the White Man's burden, Manifest Destiny and the growth of "scientific" racism, on to decolonization, the ideology of development, and structural adjustment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)