ISBN:
9789004522633
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (756 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Historical Materialism Book Ser.
DDC:
363
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Preliminary Observations to Market and Violence -- Chapter 1. On Direct Violence in Pitiless Conditions -- Chapter 2. Armed World Trade -- Robbery and Regulations -- Overseas Trade Monopolies -- Just Another Commodity -- First Theoretical Remark: On Merchants and Capitalists -- Chapter 3. Historical Preconditions for Capitalist Accumulation -- Competition Set Free -- Commercial Freedom Ashore -- Commercial Freedom on the High Seas -- The Pacification of Transport Routes -- The Fight against Highway Robbery -- Fighting Piracy -- The Capital of Industrial Capitalism -- From Merchant Capital to the Trading Capital of Industrial Capitalism -- The Liberation of Wage Labour from Coercive Political Power -- Wage Labour in Germany and Particularly in Prussia -- Wage Labour in France -- Wage Labour in England -- Servitude, Slavery, Free and Unfree Wage Labour in the United States -- Indenture (Temporary Servitude) -- Slavery -- The Living and Working Conditions of Slaves -- Slavery and Profit -- Unfree Wage Labour in the South -- Free Wage Labour Beyond the Former Slave States -- Second Theoretical Remark: The Political Economy of Capitalist Labour -- Chapter 4. Appropriation Abroad -- Forced Trade -- Territorial Sovereignty -- Fiscal Exploitation -- For Example: The Conquest of Financial Sovereignty in India -- Tributes, Poll Taxes and Labour Services -- For Example: Caoutchouc instead of Money -- Limits to Taxation -- Settlement and Expulsion -- Excursus: Justifications -- Practices of Settlement -- Spanish America -- Australia -- North America: United States of America -- Algeria -- Land Grabbing through Colonisation: A Summary -- Teaching a Lesson -- Decisions on Site -- International Experts in Pacification -- Patterns of Recruitment -- With Drill and the Maxim.
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