The Origin of Capitalism
A Longer View

Publisher:  Verso
Pages:  224pp   Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX22830

Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state. Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce. Rather, it is a late and localized product of very specific historical conditions, which required great transformations in social relations and in the relationship between humans and nature.

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Table of Contents:

Part I HISTORIES OF THE TRANSITION
1 The Commercialization Model and Its Legacy
2 Marxist Debates
3 Marxist Alternatives

PART II THE ORIGIN OF CAPITALISM
4 Commerce or Capitalism?
5 The Agrarian Origin of Capitalism

PART III AGRARIAN CAPITALISM AND BEYOND
6 Agrarian Capitalism and Beyond
7 The Origin of Capitalist Imperialism
8 Capitalism and the Nation State
9 Modernity and Postmodernity

Conclusion
Notes
Index

Subject Headings

• Capitalism/History of
• Capitalist Mode of Production
• History of Capitalism