How the West came to rule : the geopolitical origins of capitalism / / Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancıoglu

• Autore: Anievas Alexander
• Pubblicazione: London, [England] : , : Pluto Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (400 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.12209
• Soggetto topico: Capitalism - History; Capitalism - Moral and ethical aspect
• Persona (resp. second.): NisancıogluKerem
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; 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 Southeast 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. The book 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, the authors provide an account of how these diverse events and processes came together to produce capitalism.
• Titolo autorizzato: How the West came to rule
• ISBN: 1-78371-324-0; 1-78371-323-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910255445903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II