How long does it take to read A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things?
Raj Patel, Rajeev Charles Patel, Jason W. Moore Raj Patel, Simon Mattacks
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things by Raj Patel, Rajeev Charles Patel, Jason W. Moore Raj Patel, Simon Mattacks takes about 5 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 43 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2017. 312 pages, about 85,800 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism. At a time of crisis in all seven cheap things, innovative and systemic thinking is urgently required. This book proposes a radical new way of understanding--and reclaiming--the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Human ecology, Economic aspects, Capitalism, HISTORY / World, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology, Kapitalismus
