The Market and the Oikos, Vol. II

The Peasant and the Nomad in History

Hans Derks (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2022
Brill (Verlag)
9789004513754 (ISBN)

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The Market and the Oikos analyses from a global perspective the relationships between markets and households, families and states (Vol. I) to towns versus country sides, the focus of this second volume, proceeding from early history to contemporary China.

Both Karl Marx and Max Weber inspired the writing of the two volumes of The Market and the Oikos. Weber coined a market versus oikos contradiction, in which oikos not only means house, household or family, but later also the state, while Marx saw a town versus country antagonism. Both scholars, however, explained insufficiently these most complicated concepts, let alone some mutual relationships. This second volume, The Market and the Oikos, Vol. II: The Peasant and the Nomad in History, continues the analysis of their antagonisms in their mutual relationships by providing the main practical characteristics in different historical, economic and sociological contexts, based on the writing of Max Weber as explained in Vol. I.

While the first volume tried to characterize the relationships from economic and historical points of view, this second volume takes a historical/sociological angle. In both volumes, Hans Derks’ argument proceeds from early world historical examples to the present context of contemporary China, stressing the highly neglected role of nomads in history.

Hans Derks, Ph.D. (1986), Amsterdam University, taught at universities in the Netherlands and abroad. He has published many monographs and articles, often on China, including The History of the Opium Problem: The Assault on the East, ca. 1600-1950, (Brill, 2012); Victims and Perpetrators: Dutch Shoah, 1933/45 and beyond, (Brill, 2019); and the first volume of this set, The Market and the Oikos: The Relationship Between Religion and Capitalism in Modern China, (Brill, 2018). The author’s webpage is www.hderks.dds.nl.

Preface

Introduction to the Project

A Biographical Note

Acknowledgments

Sources

Abbreviations

PART 1: The Definition of Realities

1 Introduction

1Introduction to the Volume

2The Myth-Hunters

3Plants and Animals

4Death of an “Ancient Economy”

6Conflicts

7Plan of the Book

PART 2: Peasant Societies in Antiquity

2 Landscape with Cows, Seascape with Ships

1What is the Problem?

2A Wild, Barren Goat Land?

3Homer in the Cold

4‘The Extreme Mildness of the Seasons ...’

5A Seascape for Farmer – Mariners as Pirates

6Aegina as a Model?

3 The Little Acre of the Gods

1Nomads and Sedentary

2Plains and Mountains

3Four Plains, Five Worlds

4A New View of an Old Landscape

5Meat Consumption of/for Vegetarians

6The Little Acre of the Gods

7A Small Test

8The Tillage Complex

4 Autarkeia in Greek Theory and Practice

1Some General Issues

2The Oikos Controversy

3Aristotle’s Use of Autarchy

4Reflections on the Findings

5Conclusion

5 Aristotle and the ‘Milkmen’

1Milk

2The Oikos Family

3Who Drinks Milk?

4The Basic Institutions of Milk-Drinkers

5Drinkers Who Need and Like Milk

6 A Beautiful Evil

1Introduction

2Women and their Heroes

3Henpecked Husbands?

4The Macho Roman Empire

5Marginal Ideal Women

6Danaides: A Myth in Space

7A Mythic Chronology

8A Reconstruction

9Myth and the Truth of the Amazons

10 An Unnatural Theory of the Oikos

11 Achilles and His Amazon

12 Why Gods are Really People

13 Men and Women in Hellas

14 About the “Amazon Queen” Polyphemus

15 A Unity of Unequals

PART 3: The State and Its Minorities

7 The State, the “Biblical Peasants” and beyond

1Introducing a Historical Problem

2The Beginning of the End

3Imperial Monotheism

4The Original Theft

5The Second, Third, etc. Thefts

6West versus East

7The Definition of an Internal Enemy in the West

8Inventions of State Repressions

9A Few Hours Ago

8 How to Sedentarize Mobile Interests

1The Nomadic Jew as Guest

2Sombart’s Jewish Nomad

3The Police and the Medical Doctor

4A New Hero and His Nomads

5The Sedentarized “Ghetto-Jews as Guests”

6The Original Ghetto

7A Reflection on the “East Side of the Ghetto Problem”

PART 4: Nomadic Societies in Asian History

9 Elementary Characteristics of Mobile Societies

1Introduction

2Huns as “the Scourge of God”

3Mongols and Sedentary

4Elementary Characteristics

10 Nomadic Sex in Bible and in Semiotics

1A Virtual Reality

2Who-Is-Who and What-Is-What in Myth Land

3The Subject of the Discussion

4A Response to a “Nomadic Challenge”

5“My Oikos is My Castle”

6Patriarchal Prostitutes

7Nomadic Lovemaking

8A Small Historical Reflection

11 Linguistics of Death and Domination

1Introduction

2Race and Archaeology

3Horses and their Languages

4A Nomadic Monument

PART 5: The Market and the Oikos: An Epilogue

12 An Irrational Market versus a Rational Oikos? USA versus China?

1Introduction

2Young Protests

3“The World We Have Lost”

4Opium Banking in a Crown Colony

5Exorbitant Opium Revenues

6On the Chinese Side

13 Epilogue

1Peasants and Farmers

2The Present Market-Oikos “Reconstruction”

3Asian State Formation

4Supplement

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Ideas, History, and Modern China ; 27
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	739 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9789004513754 / 9789004513754
Zustand	Neuware