Capitalisms : towards a global history / edited by Kaveh Yazdani and Dilip M. Menon.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (400 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199099269 (ebook) :Subject(s): Capitalism -- History
Additional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199499717DDC classification: 330.12209 LOC classification: HB501Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This book tries to decentre work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue durâee from the 10th century; at regions as diverse as Song China, South and South East Asia, Latin America and the Ottoman and Safavid Empires; and exploring the plurality of developments over this extended time and space. The authors argue against conventional accounts that locate the origins of capitalism solely within Europe and within the conjuncture of the industrial revolution. The essays emphasise historical conjunctures, flows of commodities, circulation of knowledge and personnel, the role of mercantile capital and small producers and stress the necessity to think beyond present day national boundaries. Countering clichâes of Western exceptionalism, this text makes a set of historical arguments about non-Western and interconnected economic developments across the globe, prior to the era of colonialism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book tries to decentre work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue durâee from the 10th century; at regions as diverse as Song China, South and South East Asia, Latin America and the Ottoman and Safavid Empires; and exploring the plurality of developments over this extended time and space. The authors argue against conventional accounts that locate the origins of capitalism solely within Europe and within the conjuncture of the industrial revolution. The essays emphasise historical conjunctures, flows of commodities, circulation of knowledge and personnel, the role of mercantile capital and small producers and stress the necessity to think beyond present day national boundaries. Countering clichâes of Western exceptionalism, this text makes a set of historical arguments about non-Western and interconnected economic developments across the globe, prior to the era of colonialism.
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