Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism
Editors: Lafrance, Xavier, Post, Charles (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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.
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- About this book
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This edited volume builds and expands on the groundbreaking work of Robert Brenner and Ellen Meiksins Wood on the origins of capitalism. Whereas Brenner and Wood focused mostly on the emergence of capitalism in the English countryside (agrarian capitalism), this book utilizes their approach to offer original, theoretically sophisticated, and empirically informed accounts of transitions to capitalism – both agrarian and industrial – in a wide range of countries in order to provide within a single volume a diverse collection of relatively brief yet detailed case studies of the historical transition to capitalism distributed across three continents. Offering a new and highly original analysis of the global spread of capitalism, this book will be a unique contribution to the longstanding debate on the transition to capitalism.
- About the authors
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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
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-38
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Expropriation and the Political Origins of Agrarian Capitalism in England
Pages 39-62
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“Compelled to Sell All”: Proletarianization, Agrarian Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution
Pages 63-86
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Peasant Farming in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France and the Transition to Capitalism Under Charles de Gaulle
Pages 87-109
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The Transition to Industrial Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century France
Pages 111-137
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism
- Editors
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- Xavier Lafrance
- Charles Post
- Series Title
- Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-95657-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-95657-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-95656-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-07078-6
- Series ISSN
- 2524-7123
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 355
- Topics
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