ENGLISH

How the west came to rule : the geopolitical origins of capitalism

By Anievas , Alexander; Nişancıoğlu , Kerem

Book information

Publisher
Pluto Press
Year
2015
ISBN
0745335217, 978-0-7453-3521-6, 978-0-7453-3615-2, 0745336159, 978-1-7837-1323-3, 978-1-7837-1325-7, 978-1-7837-1324-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11146430 bytes)
Pages
386\401
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Capitalism -- History. Geopolitic

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.

Similar books