Nations without States - Class, Society and Geography in the world-system — Class, Society and Geography in the world-system

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Dadansoddiad strwythurol, hirhoedlog sy'n datgelu sut y lluniwyd Cymru, Catalwnia, y Mezzogiorno, a Padania gan ddatblygiad anwastad o fewn y wladwriaeth fodern a'r system fyd-eang gyfalafol.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

A structural, longue durée analysis revealing how Wales, Catalonia, the Mezzogiorno, and Padania were shaped by uneven development within the modern state and the capitalist world-system.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

PREFACE INTRODUCTION THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS DEPENDENCY THEORY AND THE STAGIST VIEW OF DEVELOPMENT Dependency Theory Distorted Development Limitations of Dependency Theory UNIT OF ANALYSIS AND OBSERVATION THE ANNALES SCHOOL AND THE LONGUE DURÉE The longue durée The conjoncture or Periodic History L’histoire événementielle or Episodic History WORLD-SYSTEMS ANALYSIS The Periphery The Semi-Periphery States and Nations Nationalism CATALONIA AND SPAIN Geography THE CROWN OF ARAGÓN The Catalan (Re)conquista Late-Medieval Crisis Union of Castile and Aragón THE RECONQUISTA The Process of Reconquest Sugar and the new Frontiers 1492 AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAS Silver, Agriculture, and the Economy 1492 and the world-system Spain of the 17th Century BUILDING THE SPANISH STATE The Catalan Economy The fall of the Colonies and the Catalan Economy The Catalan ‘Rebirth’ Ecology and Labour 1898, EMPIRE AND FASCISM The rise of Catalan Nationalism The Spanish Civil War and Facism The Catalan Economy under Fascism THE RETURN TO LIBERAL DEMOCRACY: CATALONIA IN THE WORLD-SYSTEM Spain as Semi-periphery Catalonia as Core? CONCLUSION THE MEZZOGIORNO, PADANIA, AND ITALY Geography The Roman Foundations of Italy Italy and the Carolingian Empire 10th Century Situation The Meeting of Christian and Islamic Worlds THE ITALIAN CITY-STATE SYSTEM The Economy of the City-State Banking and Finance The Development of the City-State System The Guilds and Agriculture Hidden Labour The Social Superstructre The Church A FAILURE TO TRANSITION? Long-distance Trade The South A Feudal Social Structure The Changing Position of Italy within the World-System THE FALL OF ITALY Foreign Control Reform THE ITALIAN RISORGIMENTO The Passive Revolution The Risorgimento and the Roots of ‘The Southern Question’ The Southern Economy Italian Colonialism FASCIST ITALY AND THE POST-WAR PERIOD Fascist Italy and the Changing Southern Question Post-War Italy: A New Dawn? Italy in the world-system After 1945 The Cassa Per il Mezzogiorno ITALY SINCE THE 1990S: THE NATIONALISM OF THE NORTH Padania: Inventing a Nation It’s the Economy, Stupid. The International Context CONCLUSION WALES AND BRITAIN Geography THE ANGLO-SAXONS AND POST-ROMAN WALES The Normans and the Welsh March Geographic Conditions and the Economy THE TUDORS AND STATE CONSOLIDATION The Acts of Union with Wales The Reformation THE BIRTH OF CAPITALISM Agricultural Capitalism and its Foundations The Parts and the Whole: The World-System and Agricultural Capitalism Capitalism and Slavery The Absence of Agricultural Capitalism in Wales The ‘English’ Civil War Wales and the ‘English’ Civil War THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND THE FOUR CHEAPS Cheap Labour Cheap Energy Cheap Food THE NATIONAL/IMPERIAL CONTRADICTION Nonconformism and the Failure of Welsh Liberalism Class Conflict in Wales All That is Solid Melts into Air POST-WAR (DIS)UNITY Thatcherism The Fall of Empire ‘New’ Wales, Old Problems How Leave was my Valley? CONCLUSION THE PAST WE INHERIT, THE FUTURE WE BUILD REFERENCES

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Sam Parry is a historian of political economy and world-systems analysis, specialising in longue durée approaches to regional development, state formation and the structural history of stateless nations.