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

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

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Author / Creator:Anievas, Alexander, author.
Imprint:London [England] : Pluto Press, 2015.
©2015
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 386 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Knowledge Unlatched Select 2017 (on order)
Subject:
Capitalism -- History.
Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Capitalism.
Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11451567
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Other authors / contributors:Nişancıoğlu, Kerem, author.
Nis⁺ʹanc♯łog⁺їlu, Kerem, author.
ISBN:9781783713233
1783713232
9781783713257
1783713259
9781783713240
1783713240
9780745335216
0745335217
9780745336152
0745336159
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-369) and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2015).
Summary: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 West Came to Rule offers a unique interdisciplinary and international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues that contrary to the dominant wisdom, capitalism's origins should not be understood as a development confined to the geographically and culturally sealed borders of Europe, but the outcome of a wider array of global processes in which non-European societies played a decisive role. Through an outline of the uneven histories of Mongolian expansion, New World discoveries, Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry, the development of the Asian colonies and bourgeois revolutions, Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu provide an account of how these diverse events and processes came together to produce capitalism.
Other form:Print version: Anievas, Alexander. How the west came to rule. London : Pluto Press, 2015 9780745336152
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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