Selected essays of Nigel Harris : : from national liberation to globalization / / by Nigel Harris ; edited by Ahmed Shawki.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume 146
• VerfasserIn: Harris, Nigel, 1935-
• TeilnehmendeR: Shawki, Ahmed,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 146.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (532 pages).

Nigel Harris’s Selected Essays: From National Liberation to Globalisation presents an encompassing overview of the work of one of the most prolific and insightful Marxist economists of the second half of the twentieth century. It starts off with a new interview in which Harris reflects on the development of his thought over the more than half a century separating the death of Stalin from the latest developments in globalisation and capitalist restructuring. The collected essays deal with topics ranging from imperialism and the state to the political economy of development and migration, and offer an ample selection from Harris’s political journalism. Together the work constitutes at once a personal journey through the history of the British revolutionary left and a trenchant commentary on some of the most fundamental problems facing a renewed Marxist theory.

Table of Contents

Front Matter / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- An Interview with Nigel Harris / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Imperialism Today / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- How Should We Characterise the World Order? Reflections on Callinicos’s Imperialism and Global Political Economy / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Can the West Survive? / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- On Economic Globalisation, Neo-liberalism and the Nature of the Period / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- The ‘Scissors Crisis’ in India and China / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Agriculture, Peasants and Accumulation / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- The Revolutionary Role of the Peasantry / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- China: Decentralisation and Development / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- New Bourgeoisies? / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Nationalism and Development / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- The War-Making State and Privatisation / Nigel Harris and David Lockwood -- The Rise and Fall of the Concept of ‘National Economic Development’ / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Food, Development and Crisis / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Deindustrialisation / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- The Road from 1910 / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Trade in Early India: Themes in Indian History / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- The New Untouchables: The International Migration of Labour / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- The Economics and Politics of the Free Movement of People / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Immigration and State Power / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- The Freedom to Move / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Japan: From the Other Side of the Hill / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Nicaragua 1979 / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Vietnam: Old Men Remember / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Teheran Diary / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Churchill: A Ruling-Class Militant / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Two Notes on a Visit to the United States (January 1976) / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Rip Van Winkle in China / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Apartheid is Dead! Long Live Apartheid! / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Korea’s New Revolution / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Structural Adjustment in Romania / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Forms of Compulsion / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Economic Fusion, Political Fission / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Mexico’s Tiananmen Square / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Peru: Emerging from Crisis / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Vietnam: Back at the Beginning / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Lebanon: There is Life after Death / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Moscow’s Migrants / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Indonesia’s Year of Anniversaries / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- The First Commonwealth Immigration Act 1962: Fifty Years On / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Bibliography of Nigel Harris’s Writings / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- References / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris -- Index / Ahmed Shawki and Nigel Harris.