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The Pristine Culture of Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States
Ellen Meiksins Wood
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Paperback. Why Britain was capitalist but not bourgeois Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: HBLL; HBTB; JPFC; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 279 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially the emergence of a "modern" state and political culture in Continental Europe, signaled the persistence of pre-capitalist social property relations. Conversely, the absence of a "modern" state and political discourse in England testified to the presence of a well-developed capitalism. The fundamental flaws in the British economy are not just the symptoms of arrested development but the contradictions of the capitalist system itself. Britain today, Wood maintains, is the most thoroughly ... Read more
In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially the emergence of a "modern" state and political culture in Continental Europe, signaled the persistence of pre-capitalist social property relations. Conversely, the absence of a "modern" state and political discourse in England testified to the presence of a well-developed capitalism. The fundamental flaws in the British economy are not just the symptoms of arrested development but the contradictions of the capitalist system itself. Britain today, Wood maintains, is the most thoroughly ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
356g
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784781033
SKU
V9781784781033
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About Ellen Meiksins Wood
Ellen Meiksins Wood, for many years Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, is the author of many books, including Democracy Against Capitalism and, with Verso, The Pristine Culture of Capitalism, The Origin of Capitalism, Peasant-Citizen and Slave, Citizens to Lords, Empire of Capital and Liberty and Property.
Reviews for The Pristine Culture of Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States
[Wood] has indisputably set the agenda anew.
Times Literary Supplement
The writing is so supple and accessible, and the argument so persuasive, it's like watching a cloudy mixture of ideas being turned into a clear solution.
Adrienne Rich A splendid book.
Eric Hobsbawm Meiksins Wood is a rare breed
an academic with the soul of a storyteller. ... Read more
Times Literary Supplement
The writing is so supple and accessible, and the argument so persuasive, it's like watching a cloudy mixture of ideas being turned into a clear solution.
Adrienne Rich A splendid book.
Eric Hobsbawm Meiksins Wood is a rare breed
an academic with the soul of a storyteller. ... Read more