Modern capitalist culture / Leslie A. White ; edited and foreword by Robert L. Carneiro, Ben Urish, and Burton J. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Leslie A., 1900-1975.

Contributor:

Carneiro, Robert L. (Robert Leonard), 1927-2020.

Urish, Ben.

Brown, Burton J.

Series:

One World Archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Culture.

Social structure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (701 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This lost classic by famous anthropological theorist Leslie A. White, published now for the first time, represents twenty-five years of his scholarship on the anthropology of modern capitalism. Drawing out his now classic formulations of social organization, cultural evolution, and the relationship between technology, ecology, and culture, this major theoretical work traces a vast expanse of history from the earliest forms of capitalism to the detailed inner workings of contemporary democratic institutions. A substantial foreword by Burton J. Brown, Benjamin Urish, and Robert Carneiro bot

Contents:

Contents; Foreword / Robert L. Carneiro, Ben Urish, and Burton J. Brown; 1. Introduction; 2. The Nature of Capitalist-Democratic Culture; 3. Early Development of Capitalist Culture: Tenth to Sixteenth Centuries; 4. Development of Capitalist-Democratic Culture: Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries; 5. The Fuel Revolution; 6. Socio-cultural Consequences of the Fuel Revolution; 7. The United States: From Colonial Times to World War I; 8. Jungle Capitalism; 9. The State-Church in Capitalist-Democratic Society; 10. Class Structure and Class Relations

11. Class Structure in the United States: Capital and Labor12. The Social Organization of Tenure and Control of Wealth; 13. Big Business and Government; 14. Small Business; 15. The Socialization of Wealth; 16. Distribution of Wealth and Income; 17. From Laissez-Faire to Welfare, Part I; 18. From Laissez-Faire to Welfare, Part II; 19. Subsidies: Government Interference in the Free Enterprise System; 20. Mutual Funds; 21. Pension Plans; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

First published 2008 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 677-687) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-42443-6

1-315-42444-4

1-315-42445-2

1-59874-708-8

9781315424453

OCLC:

680622605