Globalization and the Postcolonial World: The New Political Economy of Development » (2nd Edition)

Ankie Hoogvelt is a sociologist and former senior lecturer in sociology at Sheffield University.

The Third World is gone, proclaims British sociologist Hoogvelt, and with it has gone development studies. She explains that there is no longer a unitary classificatory descriptor of the economic, social, and political conditions of the countries of Africa, Latin America, and Asia, and so no body of knowledge or coherent theory, or even conflicting theories, about them. She describes the winds that are blowing the various peoples in different directions. The first edition appeared in 1997. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Journal of Asian Studies - Christopher Chase-Dunn

This is a well-written textbook and a helpful review of recent theories of development . . . It formulates an innovative synthetic approach of its own and convincingly uses this approach to describe important recent changes in the Third World and in the global system.