| How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism Contributor(s): Anievas, Alex (Author), Nisancioglu, Kerem (Author) |
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ISBN: 0745336159 ISBN-13: 9780745336152 Publisher: Pluto Press (UK) OUR PRICE: $36.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Free Enterprise & Capitalism - History | Europe - Great Britain - Victorian Era (1837-1901) - Business & Economics | Economic History |
| Dewey: 330.122 |
| LCCN: 2016498081 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.45 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How the West Came to Rule offers a unique interdisciplinary and international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues that contrary to 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 colonies, and bourgeois revolutions, Alex Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu offer an account of capitalism's origins that convincingly argues against the prevailing Eurocentric narratives. |
Contributor Bio(s): Anievas, Alex: - Alexander Anievas is an Early Career Leverhulme Fellow at the Department of Political and International Studies, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Capital, the State, and War: Class Conflict and Geopolitics in the Thirty Years' Crisis, 1914-1945.Nisancioglu, Kerem: - Kerem Nisancioglu is a lecturer in international relations at SOAS, University of London. |