How the West Came to Rule (eBook)

The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism

Alexander Anievas, Kerem Nişancıolu (Autoren)

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2015
400 Seiten
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-1-78371-323-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A non-Eurocentric, sweeping look at the material conditions and events that created capitalism

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*Winner of International Studies Association (ISA)'s International Political Sociology Best Book Prize for 2017**Winner of British International Studies Association (BISA)'s International Political Economy Working Group Book Prize of 2016**Shortlisted for the ISA Book Prize* 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 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.

Inhalt

List of 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 South-East 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.6.2015
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: British industrialisation • Capitalist imperialism • colonialism and capitalism • combined development • economics of slavery • feudalism • geopolitical accumulation • History of Economics • origins of capitalism • origins of Eurocentrism • Slavery • Uneven Development
• ISBN-10: 1-78371-323-2 / 1783713232
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78371-323-3 / 9781783713233