chapter 1 Modern Theory and Ancient Practice: Is Globalization New? -- chapter 2 The Temple-Palace Conglomerate: Trade and Enterprise 3500–2000 BCE -- chapter 3 The Golden Age of Temple Capitalism: Mesopotamia and India 2250–2000 BCE -- chapter 4 Assyria and Babylon: Previewing the...

Popular representations of development need to be taken seriously (though not uncritically) as sources of authoritative knowledge, not least because they are how most people in the global north (and elsewhere) encounter development issues. To this end, this paper presents three clusters of films...