Bücher der Reihe Geography of the World-Economy

The United States in the World-Economy is a major textbook survey of the rise of the United States within the world-economy and the causes of its relative decline.

A survey of the pivotal position occupied by South East Asia in both the wider regional and the world-economy. The author demonstrates how this role has changed as a result of the successive emergence and dominance of mercantile, industrial and financial capital.

Becker and Egler examine and review the process of Brazil's entry into the capitalist world-economy. They trace this development from the country's origins as a Portuguese colony to its status as a regional power in Latin America and the eighth-largest world economy.

From aboriginal ecologies to today's narcotic traffic, this major textbook, first published in 1992, comprehensively surveys five hundred years of Caribbean history and geography.