Drums of War, Drums of Development: The Formation of a Pacific Ruling Class and Industrial Transformation in East and Southeast Asia, 1945–1980 (Historical Materialism) - Softcover

Glassman, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1642590436 ISBN 13: 9781642590432

Publisher: Haymarket Books, 2019

Synopsis

In Drums of War, Drums of Development, Jim Glassman analyses the geopolitical economy of industrial development in East and Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War era, showing how it was shaped by the collaborative planning of US and Asian elites. Challenging both neoliberal and neo-Weberian accounts of East Asian development, Glassman offers evidence that the growth of industry (the "East Asian miracle") was deeply affected by the geopolitics of war and military spending (the "East Asian massacres"). Thus, while Asian industrial development has been presented as providing models for emulation, Glassman cautions that this industrial dynamism was a product of Pacific ruling class manoeuvring which left a contradictory legacy of rapid growth, death, and ongoing challenges for development and democracy.

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About the Author

Jim Glassman, Ph.D. (1999), University of Minnesota, is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. He has authored two previous books on development issues in Asia, Thailand at the Margins (Oxford, 2004), and Bounding the Mekong (University of Hawai'i Press, 2010).

Edition details

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1642590436
• ISBN 13: 9781642590432
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 700