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- In fact, the system of capitalism has gone through three distinct epochs, beginning with mercantile, moving on to classical (or competitive), and then evolving into Keynesianism or state capitalism in the 20th century before it would morph once more into the global capitalism we know today.
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Several major challenges to capitalism appeared in the early part of the 20th century. The Russian revolution in 1917 established the first state with a ruling communist party in the world; a decade later, the Great Depression triggered increasing criticism of the existing capitalist system.
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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
Global capitalism has emerged twice, first as a European imperial system at the end of the nine-teenth century, and second as a global system of sovereign nations at the end of the twentieth cen-tury. Both episodes involved a gradual incorporation of many parts of the world into a common system.
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Jan 7, 2018 · In fact, the system of capitalism has gone through three distinct epochs, beginning with mercantile, moving on to classical (or competitive), and then evolving into Keynesianism or state capitalism in the 20th century before it would morph once more into the global capitalism we know today.
This chapter traces the long-drawn-out development of capitalism in England, employing the conception of capitalism as a socio-economic system that goes back to Karl Marx and Max Weber. It argues that over the long period, two central factors drove the process: population growth and international/intercontinental trade.
Feb 22, 2018 · Historians are taking a new look at capitalism in light of its adoption in most of the developed world. From the edited volume American Capitalism: New Histories, by Sven Beckert and Christine Desan, the authors delve into the evolution of these new historic views.
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This ambitious collection follows the evolution of capitalism from its origins in 13th-century European towns to its 16th-century expansion into Asia, Africa an...
