Critiques of Capital in Modern Britian and America: Transatlantic Exchanges 1800 to the Present Day
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Hardcover. This is a collection of essays by British and American historians and political theorists. Moving beyond a conventional action/reaction view of capitalism and its critics, the volume explores how critical traditions and beliefs have helped to shape capitalism. Editor(s): Bevir, Mark; Trentmann, Frank. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; KCLF; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 413.
This book is an innovative collection of essays by a new generation of British and American historians and political theorists. Moving beyond a conventional action/reaction view of capitalism and its critics, the volume explores how critical traditions and beliefs have helped to shape capitalism. Chapters follow diverse critiques in Britain and America and explore their Atlantic and imperial exchanges. The volume includes chapters on questions of law and property in the Victorian empire; traditions of land reform in nineteenth century America and Britain; the influence of American romanticism on British socialism; the role of Britain in American progressivism; American and ... Read more
This book is an innovative collection of essays by a new generation of British and American historians and political theorists. Moving beyond a conventional action/reaction view of capitalism and its critics, the volume explores how critical traditions and beliefs have helped to shape capitalism. Chapters follow diverse critiques in Britain and America and explore their Atlantic and imperial exchanges. The volume includes chapters on questions of law and property in the Victorian empire; traditions of land reform in nineteenth century America and Britain; the influence of American romanticism on British socialism; the role of Britain in American progressivism; American and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
227
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333980811
SKU
V9780333980811
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CHRISTOPHER BEAUCHAMP Doctoral Student in History, University of Cambridge JAMIE BRONSTEIN Associate Professor of History, New Mexico State University SIMON CANEY Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of Newcastle SANDRA DEN OTTER Assistant Professor of History, Queen's University KEVIN GRANT Assistant Professor, Department of History, Hamilton College COLIN HAY Professor of Political Analysis, Department of Political Science and International Studies, ... Read more
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' Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America demonstrates the vitality of the new transnational impulse in modern history and political science. In shifting the focus from Britain to political and intellectual exchanges between Britain and the United States, its essays illuminate afresh the struggles over contract, trust, property, consumer rights, and global crisis that have defined the modern ... Read more