Capitalisms
Towards a Global History
Published on 14. July 2020
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-19-949971-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book tries to decenter work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue duree from the tenth century; at regions as diverse as Song China, South and South East Asia, Latin America and the Ottoman and Safavid Empires; and exploring the plurality of developments over this extended time and space. The authors argue against conventional accounts that locate the origins of capitalism solely within Europe and within the conjuncture of the industrial revolution. The essays emphasize historical conjunctures, flows of commodities, circulation of knowledge and personnel, the role of mercantile capital and small producers and stress throughout the necessity to think beyond present day national boundaries. The volume contends with cliches of Western exceptionalism to make a set of historical arguments about non-Western and interconnected economic developments across the globe, prior to the era of colonialism. It argues fundamentally that the multiple histories of capitalism can be better understood from a truly global perspective.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
No
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
535 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-949971-7 (9780199499717)
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01/2020
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Persons
Dr Kaveh Yazdani teaches economic history at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His scholarly interests include the 'Great Divergence' debate and the history of South and West Asia between the 17th and 20th centuries. He is the author of India, Modernity and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (2017).
Professor Dilip M. Menon is the Mellon Chair of Indian Studies and the Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa at the University of Witwatersrand. He is the author of Caste, Nationalism and Communism in South India: Malabar, 1900-1948 (1994).
Professor Dilip M. Menon is the Mellon Chair of Indian Studies and the Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa at the University of Witwatersrand. He is the author of Caste, Nationalism and Communism in South India: Malabar, 1900-1948 (1994).
Editor
Lecturer (akademischer Rat) in economic historyLecturer (akademischer Rat) in economic history, University of Bielefeld
Mellon Chair of Indian Studies, Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in AfricaMellon Chair of Indian Studies, Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction Kaveh Yazdani, Dilip Menon Part I: Major Debates and Controversies 1. Silver, Globalization, and Capitalism
Dennis O. Flynn
2. New World Slavery in the Capitalist World-Economy Leonardo Marques
3. Russian Capitalism: Exceptionalism vs Global Labour Intensive Path, 1700-1914
Alessandro Stanziani 4. The Cambridge History of Capitalism: India
David Washbrook
5. Mysore's Pre-Colonial Potentialities of Capitalist Development and Industrialization
Kaveh Yazdani 6. Capitalism's Missing Link: What Happened to Southeast Asia? Eric Tagliacozzo 7. The Birth of Capitalism in Global Perspective
Henry Heller Part II: Case Studies in the Histories of Capitalisms 8. One-Off Capitalism in Song China, 960-1279 AD Kent Deng 9. The First Capitalist Nation: The Development of Capitalism in England Joseph Inikori 10. The Thin Line between Economic Dynamism and Social Stability: Regulation and Deregulation in Japan (twelfth to the nineteenth C.) Masaki Nakabayashi
11. The View from Early Modern China: Capitalism and the Jingdezhen Ceramics Industry Anne Gerritsen 12. Artisans, Guilds, and Capitalist Development in Cairo, 1600-1800 Nelly Hanna
13. Iranian Capitalism: Exceptionalism and Delayed Development
Rudi Matthee Notes on Editors and Contributors
Index
Introduction Kaveh Yazdani, Dilip Menon Part I: Major Debates and Controversies 1. Silver, Globalization, and Capitalism
Dennis O. Flynn
2. New World Slavery in the Capitalist World-Economy Leonardo Marques
3. Russian Capitalism: Exceptionalism vs Global Labour Intensive Path, 1700-1914
Alessandro Stanziani 4. The Cambridge History of Capitalism: India
David Washbrook
5. Mysore's Pre-Colonial Potentialities of Capitalist Development and Industrialization
Kaveh Yazdani 6. Capitalism's Missing Link: What Happened to Southeast Asia? Eric Tagliacozzo 7. The Birth of Capitalism in Global Perspective
Henry Heller Part II: Case Studies in the Histories of Capitalisms 8. One-Off Capitalism in Song China, 960-1279 AD Kent Deng 9. The First Capitalist Nation: The Development of Capitalism in England Joseph Inikori 10. The Thin Line between Economic Dynamism and Social Stability: Regulation and Deregulation in Japan (twelfth to the nineteenth C.) Masaki Nakabayashi
11. The View from Early Modern China: Capitalism and the Jingdezhen Ceramics Industry Anne Gerritsen 12. Artisans, Guilds, and Capitalist Development in Cairo, 1600-1800 Nelly Hanna
13. Iranian Capitalism: Exceptionalism and Delayed Development
Rudi Matthee Notes on Editors and Contributors
Index