Chapter
Two types of D/development
Dividing poverty and prosperity
Part I. Making the modern world
Chapter 1. Environmental determinism and early human history
From hunter gatherers to farmers
What drove the agricultural revolution?
Places of agricultural revolution
Civilization outside Europe before 1492
Chapter 2. Colonizing the world
Early colonialism and capitalism
State making and the rise of European capitalism
What if China discovered America?
British capitalism and the Industrial Revolution
Domination and famine in India
Colonialism in perspective
Chapter 3. America: making the modern world
The rise and fall of Detroit
An empire of the homeland
Gold, capitalism, territory and race
American colonialism overseas
America: the world’s hegemon
Part II. Development and change
Chapter 4. Anticipating modernity
Welcoming the modern world
What does it mean to be modern?
Rostow’s ‘non-communist manifesto’
America remakes the world
Development as modernization in Mozambique
Development as modernization
Chapter 5. The resource curse and the debt crisis
Dealing with the devil in Ghana
Oil and poverty in Nigeria
Falling export incomes and loan dependency
Star Wars and a new world order
Neoliberalism in the Global South
Chapter 6. East Asian tigers
Making modern South Korea
A newly industrialized economy
Hong Kong as a global city
Part III. After development
Chapter 7. Is Africa rising?
Africa in the twenty-first century
Millennium Development Goals
Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
Narratives of development success and failure in Mozambique
Sustainable Development Goals?
Chapter 8. Depoliticizing development
Passive revolution in South Africa
Africa’s new debts to China
Chapter 9. What next? The end of development
What is wrong with International Development?
Why are different parts of the world rich and poor?
Has International Development succeeded or failed?
What does the end of development mean?
The End of Development
：A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity
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