UID:
almafu_9958346349202883
Format:
1 online resource (400 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-78371-324-0
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1-78371-323-2
Content:
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. The book 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, the authors provide an account of how these diverse events and processes came together to produce capitalism.
Note:
Includes index.
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Cover; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Transition Debate: Theories and Critique; 2. Rethinking the Origins of Capitalism: The Theory of Uneven and Combined Development; 3. The Long Thirteenth Century: Structural Crisis, Conjunctural Catastrophe; 4. The Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry over the Long Sixteenth Century; 5. The Atlantic Sources of European Capitalism, Territorial Sovereignty and the Modern Self; 6. The 'Classical' Bourgeois Revolutions in the History of Uneven and Combined Development
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7. Combined Encounters: Dutch Colonisation in Southeast Asia and the Contradictions of 'Free Labour'8. Origins of the Great Divergence over the Longue Durée: Rethinking the 'Rise of the West'; Conclusion; Notes; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7453-3615-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7453-3521-7
Language:
English
Keywords:
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