ISBN:
9781783713233
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9781783713257
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9781783713240
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (400 Seiten)
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Erscheint auch als Anievas, Alexander How the West came to rule
Keywords:
Capitalism History
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Capitalism Moral and ethical aspects
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Electronic books
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Geschichte
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Geschichte
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Kapitalismus
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Weltwirtschaft
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Kolonialismus
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Geopolitik
Abstract:
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. How the West Came to Rule 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, Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu provide an account of how these diverse events and processes came together to produce capitalism
Abstract:
The transition debate: theories and critique -- Rethinking the origins of capitalism: the theory of uneven and combined development -- The long thirteenth century: structural crisis, conjunctural catastrophe -- The Ottoman-Hapsburg rivalry over the long sixteenth century -- The Atlantic sources of European capitalism, territorial sovereignty and the modern self -- The 'classical' bourgeois revolutions in the history of uneven and combined development -- Combined encounters: Dutch colonisation in Southeast Asia and the contradictions of 'free labour' -- Origins of the great divergence over the Longus Durée: rethinking the 'rise of the West'. -- The Problem of Eurocentrism -- Confronting the Problematic of Sociohistorical Difference -- What is Capitalism? -- What Is Geopolitics? -- Introduction -- The 'Commercialisation Model' Revisited: World-Systems Analysis and the Transition to Capitalism -- The Making of the Modern World- System: The Wallerstein Thesis -- The Problem of Eurocentrism -- The Problem of Historical Specificity -- The Spatiotemporal Limits of Political Marxism -- The Brenner Thesis: Explanation and Critique -- The Geopolitical in the Making of Capitalism -- The Political Marxist Conception of Capitalism -- The Problematic of Sociohistorical Difference: Postcolonial Studies Engaging Capital -- The Eurocentrism of Historicism -- The Violence of Abstraction -- The Lacuna of Postcolonial Theory -- Conclusion -- Introduction -- The Theory of Uneven and Combined Development: Exposition and Critiques -- Unevenness -- Combination -- Seeing Through a Prism Darkly? Uneven and Combined Development beyond the Eurocentric Gaze -- Trotsky beyond Trotsky? Uneven and Combined Development before Capitalism -- More Questions than Answers: Method, Abstraction and Historicity in Marx's Thought -- Modes of Production Versus Uneven and Combined Development? A False Antithesis -- Conclusion: Towards an 'Internationalist Historiography' of Capitalism -- Introduction -- Pax Mongolica as a Vector of Uneven and Combined Development -- The Nomadic Mode of Production and Uneven and Combined Development -- The World-Historical Significance of the Mongol Empire -- Trade, Commerce, and Socio-Economic Development under the Pax Mongolica -- Apocalypse Then: The Black Death and the Crisis of Feudalism -- Class Struggle and the Changing Balance of Class Forces in Europe -- Peasant Differentiation in the Age of the Black Death -- Development of the Productive Forces -- Conclusion -- Introduction -- Unevenness: A Clash of Social Reproduction -- Ottoman-European Relations -- The Tributary and Feudal Modes of Production: Unevenness Combined -- Ottoman 'Penalties of Progressiveness' -- European 'Privileges of Backwardness' -- Combination: Pax Ottomana and European Trade -- The Ottoman 'Whip of External Necessity' -- The Breakdown of Christendom -- The Ottoman Blockade and the Emergence of the Atlantic -- The Ottoman Buffer and English Primitive Accumulation -- Conclusion: The Ottoman Empire as a Vector of Uneven and Combined Development -- Introduction -- Imagining Europe in the Atlantic Mirror: Rethinking the Territorialised Sovereign, Self and Other -- Tearing Down the Ideological Walls of Christendom: From Sacred to Secular Universalism in the Construction of the European Self and Non-European Other -- Legitimising Colonialism: The Historical Sociological Foundations of Eurocentrism -- Culture Wars in the Americas -- The Colonial Origins of the Modern Territorialised States System -- 1492 in the History of Uneven and Combined Development -- The Smithian Moment: American Treasures and So-Called Primitive Accumulation -- Sublating the Smithian Moment: From Smith to Marx via 'the International' -- Primitive Accumulation Proper: From 'Simple' to 'Expanded' Reproduction -- The Uneven and Combined Development of Plantation Slavery -- The Sociological Unevenness of the Atlantic -- Sociological Combination in the Plantation System -- New World Slavery and the Rise of Industrial Capitalism -- Contributions to the Sphere of Circulation -- Contributions to the Sphere of Production -- Conclusion: Colonies, Merchants and the Transition to Capitalism -- Introduction -- The Concept of Bourgeois Revolution -- Reconceptualising Bourgeois Revolutions: A Consequentialist Approach -- Reconstructing Consequentialism through Uneven and Combined Development -- The Origins of Capitalism and the Bourgeois Revolution in the Low Countries -- The Rise of Dutch Capitalism: An International Perspective -- The Making of the Dutch Revolt -- The English Revolution in the History of Uneven and Combined Development -- Rediscovering the English Revolution -- Social Forces in the Making of the British Revolution -- 1789 in the History of Uneven and Combined Development -- Peculiarities of the French Revolution? -- Capitalism and the Absolutist State in France -- The Origins of the Capitalist Revolution in France -- Capitalist Consequences of the French Revolution -- Conclusion -- Introduction -- The Specificity and Limits of Dutch Capitalism -- Dutch Institutional Innovations -- The Limits of Dutch 'Domestic' Capitalism -- Unevenness and Combination in the Pre-Colonial Indian Ocean Littoral -- The Intersocietal System of the Indian Ocean -- South Asia beyond the Eurocentric Gaze -- The Dutch Encounter: A Policy of Combination -- The Specificities and 'Success' of Dutch Strategies of Integration and Domination in Southeast Asia -- The Moluccas -- The Banda Islands -- Indian Textiles -- Conclusion -- Introduction -- Rethinking the 'Rise of the West': Advances and Impasses in the Revisionist Challenge -- Points of Agreement: European 'Backwardness' and the Role of the Colonies -- Late and Lucky: Contingences, the Eurasian Homogeneity Thesis, and the Great Divergence -- Structure and Conjuncture in the 'Rise of the West' -- The Geopolitical Competition Model and Its Limits -- Feudalism, Merchants, and the European States System in the Transition to Capitalism -- Unevenness Combined: North-South Interactions in the 'Rise of the West' -- The Conjunctural Moment of 'Overtaking': Britain's Colonisation of India -- The Significance of India's Colonisation to the 'Rise of the West' -- The Mughal Empire and the Tributary Mode of Production -- The Imperial Revenue System and Agricultural Decline in the Mughal Empire -- European Trade and Colonial Conquest: Towards 1757 -- Conclusion
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The transition debate: theories and critique -- Rethinking the origins of capitalism: the theory of uneven and combined development -- The long thirteenth century: structural crisis, conjunctural catastrophe -- The Ottoman-Hapsburg rivalry over the long sixteenth century -- The Atlantic sources of European capitalism, territorial sovereignty and the modern self -- The 'classical' bourgeois revolutions in the history of uneven and combined development -- Combined encounters: Dutch colonisation in Southeast Asia and the contradictions of 'free labour' -- Origins of the great divergence over the Longus Durée: rethinking the 'rise of the West'.
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