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1 online resource (xiii, 386 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Knowledge Unlatched Select 2017 (on order)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-369) and index. |
| Contents |
Transition debate: theories and critique -- Rethinking the origins of capitalism: the theory of uneven and combined development -- Long thirteenth century: structural crisis, conjunctural catastrophe -- Ottoman-Hapsburg rivalry over the long sixteenth century -- Atlantic sources of European capitalism, territorial sovereignty and the modern self -- The 'classical' bourgeois revolutions in the history of uneven and combined development -- Combined encounters: Dutch colonisation in Southeast Asia and the contradictions of 'free labour' -- Origins of the great divergence over the Longus Durée: rethinking the 'rise of the West'. |
| 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. How the West Came to Rule 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, Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu provide an account of how these diverse events and processes came together to produce capitalism. |
| Note |
This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Capitalism -- History.
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Capitalism. |
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History. |
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Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Nişancıoğlu, Kerem, author.
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Nis⁺ʹanc♯łog⁺їlu, Kerem, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Anievas, Alexander. How the west came to rule. London : Pluto Press, 2015 9780745336152 (OCoLC)892455082 |
| ISBN |
9781783713233 (electronic book) |
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1783713232 (electronic book) |
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9781783713257 (electronic book) |
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1783713259 (electronic book) |
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9781783713240 (electronic book) |
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1783713240 (electronic book) |
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9780745335216 |
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0745335217 |
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9780745336152 |
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0745336159 |
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