Most of Andre Gunder Frank's early work on the nature of underdevelopment focused on one continent: Latin America. Here he broadened his canvas and traced the world-wide effects of the process of capital accumulation from the period just prior to the discovery of America to the industrial and French revolutions. It is Frank's thesis that "the world has experienced a single all-embracing, albeit unequal and uneven, process of capital accumulation centered in Western Europe," which has been capitalist for at least two centuries.
- ISBN10 0853454426
- ISBN13 9780853454427
- Publish Date 1 January 1978
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Monthly Review Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 308
- Language English