| | This book represents a whole generation of interdisciplinary Marxist and radical development studies. In the generation's heyday in the mid-1970s, Aidan Foster Carter triumphantly declared it to represent the new 'paradigm' . In many people's eyes, the authority of this radical framework, replaced the capitalist and racist oriented modernisation theory. But this book also, in a broad sense, reflects the politics of The Review of African Political Economy; which, as if to bear out Foster-Carter's announcement, started in 1974. Though the Review did not initiate the new era, it consistently contributed towards it. Lastly, the book celebrates not just a period of radical social analysis, but also the social history of those involved. |
