The Three Worlds: Culture and World Development

by Peter Worsley and Lucy Worsley

Book Overview

A major, eclectic work of extraordinary scope and unprecedented vision, The Three Worlds is much more than a study of the contemporary Third World. It examines the constituents of development--cultural as well as political and economic--throughout the world from prehistory to the present.

Peter Worsley first considers existing theories of development, synthesizing the Marxist approach with that of social anthropologists and identifying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226907554
• ISBN13: 9780226907550
• Release Date: September 1984
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"