Product Description: This book argues that ancient democracy did not stop at the door of economic democracy, and that ancient Athens has much to tell us about the relationship between political equality and economic equality. Athenian democracy rested on a foundation of general economic equality, which enabled citizens to challenge their exclusion from politics...read more

Ellen Meiksins Wood is a leading contemporary political theorist who has elaborated an innovative approach to the history of political thought, the social history of political theory . She has been described as the founder, together with the historian Robert Brenner, of Political Marxism, a distinct version of historical materialism which has inspired a research program that spans a number of academic disciplines. Organized thematically, this "Reader" brings together selections from Wood s groundbreaking scholarship, published over three decades, providing an overview of her original interpretations of capitalism, precapitalist societies, the state, political theory, democracy, citizenship, liberalism, civil society, the Enlightenment, globalization, imperialism, and socialism."

Product Description: This book examines the evolution of public assistance for the poor in England from the late medieval era to the Industrial Revolution. Placing poor relief in the context of the unique class relations of agrarian capitalism, it considers how and why relief in England in the early modern period was distinct...read more

Product Description: This careful documentation illustrates how the National Post influenced Canadian government policy by fabricating a consensual public "tax rage" forcing liberal legislators to side with their conservative counterparts, and demonstrating through the error of liberal law makers the key elements for building and critiqing an argument...read more