How the West Came to Rule
The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism
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Author(s)
Anievas, Alexander
Nişancıoğlu, Kerem
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Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
History; History; Economics; International Relations; Capitalism; Geopolitics; Turkey; Asia; the West; Europe; Feudalism; Ottoman EmpireISBN
9781783713233;9781783713240Publisher
Pluto PressPublication date and place
2015-06-20Grantor
Classification
History