A brief history : the early debates that shaped sustainability -- A brief history : international sustainable development events, agreements, and commitments -- Multidisciplinary influences in defining sustainability -- Government responses to the sustainability challenge -- Non-governmental...

1. Global development -- 2. The origins and development of capitalism -- 3. Industrialization and the expansion of capital : core and periphery redefined -- 4. City states and nationalism -- 5. The imperial 'historic bloc' of the nineteenth century -- 6. The system unravels : contraction,...