The Three Worlds: Culture and World Development

The First Part Of The Book Examines Existing Theories Of Development. None Is Sacred: Using Empirical Material Drawn From The Historical Experience Of Advanced Capitalist And Socialist States, China And The Distinct Regions Of The Third World, Worsley Evaluates And Synthesises The Marxist Approach With That Of Social Anthropologists. He Identifies Culture -- In The Sense Of A Shared Set Of Values -- As The Key Element Missing In More Traditional Approaches To The Sociology Of Development And Considers Its Use By Writers As Diverse As Coleridge, Eliot And Raymond Williams. Part I: Prolegomena -- The Creation Of The Third World -- Theories Of Development -- The Myth Of Base And Superstructure: Dialectics Versus Materialsim -- Culture: The Missing Concept -- Anthropology And Holism -- Literary Criticism: The Elitist Paradigm -- From Hegemony To Pluralism: Subculture And Counter-culture -- Part Ii: The Undoing Of The Peasantry -- Before Agriculture -- Enter Agriculture: The Domestic Mode Of Production -- The Peasant Mode Of Production -- The Road To Capitalist Agriculture -- The Road To The Collective Farm -- A Diversion: The Asiatic Mode Of Production -- The Great Debate: Russia -- Revolution, 1905 -- The Moral Economy Of The Peasant -- Collectives And Communes -- The Peasantry: Persistence, Transformation, Disappearance -- Reform: (i) Community Development; (ii) Co-operatives; (iii) Land Reform -- The Varieties Of Capitalist Agriculture -- Agribusiness -- Part Iii: The Making Of The Working Class -- The Urban Explosion --^ Systems Theory, Interactionism, And Dialectical Sociology -- Systems Theory: Functionalist And Marxist -- Lumpens, Aristocrats, And The Reserve Army -- The Culture Of Poverty -- The Variety Of Poverty -- The Myth Of Marginality -- The Informal Sector -- The Poor In Action -- The Established Working Class -- Part Iv: Ethnicity And Nationalism -- Ethnicity, Class And Culture -- Ethnic Group And Nation -- The Three Modes Of Nationalism -- Before Nationalism: The Segmentary State -- The Absolutist Nation-state: Hegemony -- The Bourgeois Nation-state: Uniformity -- Decolonization: The First Wave -- Pluralism: Internationalism And Multinationalism -- Nationalism And Myth: Inventing A New Past -- Nationalism And Socialism -- Nationalism In The Capitalist Third World -- Populism And Authoritarianism -- Part V: One World Or Three? -- Decolonization -- Models Of The Third World -- From Politics To Economics -- Third World: Resistance And Change --^ Cultural Imperialism, Cultural Resistance, And Cultural Revolution -- Appendix: The Urban Poor In The Workshop Of The World. Peter Worsley. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [373]-394.