Capitalisms: Towards a Global History - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199499713 ISBN 13: 9780199499717

Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

This book tries to decenter work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue duree from the tenth 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 emphasize historical conjunctures, flows of commodities, circulation of knowledge and personnel, the role of mercantile capital and small producers and stress throughout the necessity to think beyond present day national boundaries. The volume contends with cliches of Western exceptionalism to make a set of historical arguments about non-Western and interconnected economic developments across the globe, prior to the era of colonialism. It argues fundamentally that the multiple histories of capitalism can be better understood from a truly global perspective.

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Kaveh Yazdani, Lecturer (akademischer Rat) in economic history, University of Bielefeld, Dilip M. Menon, Mellon Chair of Indian Studies, Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa


Dr Kaveh Yazdani teaches economic history at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His scholarly interests include the 'Great Divergence' debate and the history of South and West Asia between the 17th and 20th centuries. He is the author of India, Modernity and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (2017).

Professor Dilip M. Menon is the Mellon Chair of Indian Studies and the Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa at the University of Witwatersrand. He is the author of Caste, Nationalism and Communism in South India: Malabar, 1900-1948 (1994).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0199499713
• ISBN 13: 9780199499717
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
• Herausgeber: Yazdani Kaveh, Menon Dilip M.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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