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Capitalisms : towards a global history /

This book tries to decenter work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue durée 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...

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Corporate Authors: Revisiting the History of Capitalism Workshop Johannesburg, South Africa); Centre for Indian Studies in Africa; Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study; University of the Witwatersrand
Group Author: Yazdani, Kaveh (Editor); Menon, Dilip M. (Editor)
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: New Delhi, India :
Publication Dates: 2020.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Capitalism > History > Congresses.
Capitalism.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Summary: This book tries to decenter work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue durée 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.
Item Description: "Edited proceedings of Revisiting the History of Capitalism Workshop, organized by the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS), held at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 14-15 June 2016"--Page 13.
Carrier Form: xi, 397 pages : illustration, forms ; 23 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780199499717 (hardback) :
0199499713 (hardback)
9780199099252 (eBook)
0199099251 (eBook)
9780199099269 (ebook)
019909926X (ebook)
Index Number: HB501
CLC: F03-532
Call Number: F03-532/R454/2016

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