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The United States in the World-Economy is a major textbook survey of the rise of the United States within the world-economy and the causes of its relative decline.

Becker and Egler examine and review the process of Brazil's entry into the capitalist world-economy. They trace this development from the country's origins as a Portuguese colony to its status as a regional power in Latin America and the eighth-largest world economy.

A survey of the pivotal position occupied by South East Asia in both the wider regional and the world-economy. The author demonstrates how this role has changed as a result of the successive emergence and dominance of mercantile, industrial and financial capital.

From aboriginal ecologies to today's narcotic traffic, this major textbook, first published in 1992, comprehensively surveys five hundred years of Caribbean history and geography.