Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction (Xavier Lafrance and Charles Post)
Chapter 1: Expropriation and the Political Origins of the Transition to Agrarian Capitalism in England (Spencer Dimmock)
Chapter 2: England/industry (Michael Zmolek)
Chapter 3: Traditional Farming in France until the Transition to Capitalism of the 1960s under de Gaulle (Stephen Miller)
Chapter 4: From Extra-Economic Class Relations to the Rise of Industrial Capitalism in Post-Revolutionary France (Xavier Lafrance)
Chapter 5: Beyond the Brenner Thesis: The Origins of Capitalism in Catalonia (Javier Moreno Zacarés)
Chapter 6: The American Road to Capitalism (Charles Post)
Chapter 7: The Peasantry and Tenancy-Market Dependence: Rural Capitalism in Meiji-Era Japan (Mark Cohen)
Chapter 8: ‘The 100 Years of “Transition”: The (Geo)politics of Capitalism and Jacobinism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey’ (Eren Duzgun)
Chapter 9: Colonialism(s), Race, and the Transition to Capitalism in Canada (Jessica Evans)
Chapter 10: Rural Property Relations and the Regional Dynamics of the Brazilian Transition to Capitalism (Chris Carlson)
Chapter 11: Contingency and the Origins of the Taiwan Miracle (Christopher Isett)
Chapter 12: Rethinking the ‘Social’ in the transition to capitalism: Reading Federici and Brenner together (Nicole Leach)
Conclusion (Xavier Lafrance and Charles Post)
