Overview
- Represents an original contribution to the on-going debate on the origins of capitalism that significantly expands and renews the major contributions of Robert Brenner and Ellen Meiksins Wood.
- Provides readers with high quality empirical studies guided by—and contributing to—a sophisticated theoretical definition of capitalism.
- Offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the transition to capitalism—the collaborative product of historians, political scientists and sociologists.
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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Keywords
- Transitions to capitalism
- East Asia capitalism
- proletarianization
- property relations
- class reproduction
- Jacobinism
- Jacobin political economy
- Kemalism
- capitalist agrarian economy
- Merchant-industrialists
- radical politics
- industrial capitalism
- Expropriation
- Peasantry
- Tenancy
- global capitalism
- us politics
Table of contents (14 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Xavier Lafrance is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Québec in Montréal, Canada
Charles Post is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism
Editors: Xavier Lafrance, Charles Post
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95657-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95656-5Published: 28 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07078-6Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95657-2Published: 19 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 355
Topics: Political History, Political Theory, Comparative Politics, European Politics, US Politics