How the west came to rule : the geopolitical origins of capitalism / Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nişancıoğlu.
| Author/creator |
Anievas, Alexander author. |
| Other author/creator | Nişancıoğlu, Kerem, author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | London : Pluto Press, 2015. |
| Description | xiii, 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
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| 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'. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-369) and index. |
| ISBN | 9780745336152 |
| ISBN | 0745336159 |
| ISBN | 9780745335216 |
| ISBN | 0745335217 |
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| ISBN | (PDF ebook) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | HB501 .A55 2015 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |