Case studies in the origins of capitalism / Xavier Lafrance, Charles Post, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lafrance, Xavier, editor.

Post, Charles, editor.

Series:

Marx, Engels, and Marxisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--History.

Capitalism.

History.

Economic history.

Agriculture--Economic aspects.

Agriculture.

Industrial organization (Economic theory).

Brenner, Robert, 1943-.

Brenner, Robert.

Wood, Ellen Meiksins.

Physical Description:

xvii, 355 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Summary:

"This edited volume builds and expands on the groundbreaking work of Robert Brenner and Ellen Meiksins Wood on the origins of capitalism. Whereas Brenner and Wood focused mostly on the emergence of capitalism in the English countryside (agrarian capitalism), this book utilizes their approach to offer original, theoretically sophisticated, and empirically informed accounts of transitions to capitalism - both agrarian and industrial - in a wide range of countries in order to provide within a single volume a diverse collection of relatively brief yet detailed case studies of the historical transition to capitalism distributed across three continents. Offering a new and highly original analysis of the global spread of capitalism, this book will be a unique contribution to the longstanding debate on the transition to capitalism"--Back cover.

Contents:

Expropriation and the political origins of agrarian capitalism in England / Spencer Dimmock

"Compelled to sell all": proletarianization, agrarian capitalism and the Industrial Revolution / Michael Andrew Žmolek

Peasant farming in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France and the transition to capitalism under Charles de Gaulle / Stephen Miller

The transition to industrial capitalism in nineteenth-century France / Xavier Lafrance

The transition to capitalism in Catalonia / Javier Moreno Zacarés

The American road to capitalism / Charles Post

Colonialism, racism, and the transition to capitalism in Canada / Jessica Evans

The peasantry and tenancy-market dependence: rural capitalism in Meiji-era Japan / Mark Cohen

Rural property relations and the regional dynamics of Brazilian capitalism / Chris Carlson

The political economy of the transition to capitalism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey: towards a new interpretation / Eren Duzgun

Uncertainty, contingency, and late development in Taiwan / Christopher Isett

Rethinking the rules of reproduction and the transition to capitalism: reading Federici and Brenner together / Nicole Leach.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319956565

3319956566

OCLC:

1074326413