PART 1 Introduction: The Consumer, the Laborer, the
Capitalist, and the Nation-State in the Society of Perpetual
Growth ........................................................... 1
Chapter 1 Constructing the Consumer ............................ 11
Chapter 2 The Laborer in the Culture of Capitalism ............. 33
Chapter 3 The Rise and Fall of the Merchant, Industrialist,
and Financier ........................................ 55
Chapter 4 The Nation-State in the Culture of Capitalism ........ 96
PART 2 The Global Impact of the Culture of Capitalism:
Introduction ................................................... 123
Chapter 5 The Problem of Population Growth .................... 129
Chapter 6 Hunger, Poverty, and Economic Development ........... 155
Chapter 7 Environment and Consumption ......................... 183
Chapter 8 Health and Disease .................................. 207
Chapter 9 Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Conflict ............... 234
PART 3 Resistance and Rebellion: Introduction .................. 261
Chapter 10 Peasant Protest, Rebellion, and Resistance .......... 267
Chapter 11 Anti-Systemic Protest ............................... 290
Chapter 12 Religion and Anti-Systemic Protest .................. 311
Chapter 13 Constructing the Citizen-Activist ................... 334
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