How the West came to rule : the geopolitical origins of capitalism / Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancıoglu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anievas, Alexander, author.

Nişancıoğlu, Kerem, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--History.

Capitalism.

Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspect.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] : Pluto Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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. 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.

Contents:

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

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

Notes:

Includes index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2015).

ISBN:

9781783713240

1783713240

9781783713233

1783713232

OCLC:

912325712

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access