How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0745336159
ISBN 13
9780745336152
Category
Politics & Sociology
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Publication Year
2015
Publisher
Pages
296
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. - from Amzon
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1
