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capitalism has been so conflictual and violently contested. I. INTRODUCTION When communism collapsed in Eastern Europe in 1989, the running quip was that socialism was simply the longest road from capitalism to capitalism. The socialist detour, which carried along roughly one-third of humanity as of the mid-1980s, has nearly
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global histories connected and compared
Meanwhile, global historians, with a few prominent exceptions, have remained indifferent to the history of capitalism.16 This may be partly explained by the sway of cultural theory in the historical discipline since the 1980s and an increasing suspicion of ‘grand narratives’.17 By the moment of the field’s emergence in the 1990s, for a historical profession in the midst of its cultural turn and under the apparent hegemony of neoliberalism, ‘capitalism’ was invisible. One effect of that invisi...
capitalism and global history in past and present: a narrative reappraisal
Over the course of our conversations, it became clear to us that the history of capitalism’s struggle to define its subject and global history’s difficulties in coming to grips with power and causality shared common roots. They suggested three related hypotheses for further investigation. The first is that the history of capitalism will not be able to meaningfully corral its subject until it grapples with the way that capitalism itself moves beyond the bounds of the nation state, as a connect...
capitalism in global history
The newest iteration of the global history of capitalism has returned to the question that drove Hobsbawm and Brenner’s theoretical excursions. Yet some of the conclusions that recent historians have drawn about the nature and development of (especially North American) capitalism fall into similar conceptual traps. Capitalism became about wage labour, they argue, but only after passing through a stage where it was, essentially, about slavery. But that reconfiguration, however promising and ge...
- Andrew David Edwards, Peter Hill, Juan Neves-Sarriegui
- 2020
Capitalism. Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production. This is generally taken to imply the moral permissibility of profit, free trade, capital accumulation, voluntary exchange, wage labor, etc. Its emergence, evolution, and spread are the subjects of extensive research and debate.
Nov 6, 2024 · Capitalism, economic system, dominant in the Western world since the breakup of feudalism, in which most means of production are privately held and production, prices, and incomes are determined by markets. Learn more about the history and development of capitalism in this article.
A Comeback for Capitalism. In one of his articles, Fred Block has traced. the history of the term "capitalism" and. found some interesting facts (Block 2000). While the term became popular early with opponents of capitalism and also radical aca-demics, people in the business world saw it as tainted and did not like to use it. In the. 1970s ...
Sep 1, 2014 · The history of capitalism attempts to see capitalism from multiple angles using multiple methodologies. That means writing works of history that deliberately erode disciplinary barriers. It means, for example, doing history “from the bottom up, all the way to the top”—and here I'm quoting Louis Hyman. 1.
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Indeed, how capitalist were the seaborne empires of the Iberian kingdoms of the period, and how did the impact of these encounters differ from such later examples as the scramble for Africa and deepening penetration of Asia by Europeans at high points of the ‘old’ and ‘new’ imperialisms of the 18th and 19th centuries, successively characterized by mercantile, industrial and financial ...
