I. Ways of Knowing Development

2. Conceptualizing and Representing the “Majority World”

3. The Colonized World: Colonial Encounters

4. The Third World: The Development Decades

5. The Global South: Globalization and Its Discontents

II. Political-Economic Relations

6. Colonialism and the Slave Trade

7. Colonialism as Spatial and Labor Control System

8. The End of Colonialism and the Free Trade Doctrine

9. Trading Primary Commodities: Unequal Exchange

10. Peripheral Industrialization: Paths and Strategies

11. Postcolonial Population Flows: Barriers and Migrant Acts

III. Nature-Society Relations

12. Populating the Planet: Too Many or Too Few?

13. A Differentiated Urban World

14. The Biosphere: Food, Fibers, and Genes

15. Earth’s Crust: Extracting Minerals and Energy

16. Contested Environments: Entanglements of Nature and Development

IV. Agents of Development

17. The Development Complex

18. Transnational Corporations

19. Financing Development

20. Toward Different Worlds

Index