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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Verso Books
Publication date
January 1, 1992
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780860913627
ISBN-10
0860913627
Availability§
Out of Print
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$59.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Capitalism was born in England, yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have come from elsewhere, notably from France, the historical model of âbourgeoisâ society. 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 âmodernâ state and political culture in Continental Europe, signalled the persistence of precapitalist social property relations. Conversely, the absence of a âmodernâ 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 capitalist culture in Europe.
Weaving together economic and political history with the history of ideas, Wood ranges across a broad spectrum of current debates, from the âNairnâAnderson thesesâ to the contribution of J.C.D. Clark and Alan Macfarlane, and over a wide variety of topics: the development of British capitalism and French absolutism; the state, the nation and their symbolic representations; revolution and tradition; the cultural patterns of English speech, urbanism, ruralism and the landscape garden; ideas of sovereignty, democracy, property and progress.
This book will be as interesting and provocative to observers of contemporary capitalism as to historians of early modern Europe or Western political thought.
Weaving together economic and political history with the history of ideas, Wood ranges across a broad spectrum of current debates, from the âNairnâAnderson thesesâ to the contribution of J.C.D. Clark and Alan Macfarlane, and over a wide variety of topics: the development of British capitalism and French absolutism; the state, the nation and their symbolic representations; revolution and tradition; the cultural patterns of English speech, urbanism, ruralism and the landscape garden; ideas of sovereignty, democracy, property and progress.
This book will be as interesting and provocative to observers of contemporary capitalism as to historians of early modern Europe or Western political thought.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Verso Books (January 1, 1992)
9780860913627 | details & prices | List price $59.95
About: Capitalism was born in England, yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have come from elsewhere, notably from France, the historical model of âbourgeoisâ society.
About: Capitalism was born in England, yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have come from elsewhere, notably from France, the historical model of âbourgeoisâ society.
Paperback
from Verso Books (November 3, 2015)
9781784781033 | details & prices | 200 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.78 lbs | List price $26.95
from Verso Books (January 1, 1992)
9780860915720 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $19.95
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