How the West came to rule : the geopolitical origins of capitalism

How the West came to rule : the geopolitical origins of capitalism /

Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundamentally European - a system that was born in the mills and factories of England or under the guillotines of the French Revolution. In this groundbreaking book, a very different story is told. How the We...

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Main Authors: Anievas, Alexander (Author), Nişancıoğlu, Kerem (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London [England] : Pluto Press, 2015.
Series:Knowledge Unlatched Select 2017 (on order)
Subjects:
Capitalism > History.
Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects.
History.
Humanities.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
HISTORY > General.
Capitalism
Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • The transition debate: theories and critique
  • Rethinking the origins of capitalism: the theory of uneven and combined development
  • The long thirteenth century: structural crisis, conjunctural catastrophe
  • The Ottoman-Hapsburg rivalry over the long sixteenth century
  • The Atlantic sources of European capitalism, territorial sovereignty and the modern self
  • The 'classical' bourgeois revolutions in the history of uneven and combined development
  • Combined encounters: Dutch colonisation in Southeast Asia and the contradictions of 'free labour'
  • Origins of the great divergence over the Longus Durée: rethinking the 'rise of the West'.

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