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Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism

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Editors:
  1. Xavier Lafrance

    1. University of Québec in Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

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  2. Charles Post

    1. Graduate Center and Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA

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  • Represents an original contribution to the on-going debate on the origins of capitalism that significantly expands and renews the major contributions of Robert Brenner and Ellen Meiksins Wood.
  • Provides readers with high quality empirical studies guided by—and contributing to—a sophisticated theoretical definition of capitalism.
  • Offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the transition to capitalism—the collaborative product of historians, political scientists and sociologists.

Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Xavier Lafrance, Charles Post
    Pages 1-38

  3. Expropriation and the Political Origins of Agrarian Capitalism in England

    • Spencer Dimmock
    Pages 39-62

  4. “Compelled to Sell All”: Proletarianization, Agrarian Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

    • Michael Andrew Žmolek
    Pages 63-86

  5. Peasant Farming in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France and the Transition to Capitalism Under Charles de Gaulle

    • Stephen Miller
    Pages 87-109

  6. The Transition to Industrial Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century France

    • Xavier Lafrance
    Pages 111-137

  7. The Transition to Capitalism in Catalonia

    • Javier Moreno Zacarés
    Pages 139-164

  8. The American Road to Capitalism

    • Charles Post
    Pages 165-189

  9. Colonialism, Racism, and the Transition to Capitalism in Canada

    • Jessica Evans
    Pages 191-213

  10. The Peasantry and Tenancy-Market Dependence: Rural Capitalism in Meiji-Era Japan

    • Mark Cohen
    Pages 215-238

  11. Rural Property Relations and the Regional Dynamics of Brazilian Capitalism

    • Chris Carlson
    Pages 239-263

  12. The Political Economy of the Transition to Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey: Towards a New Interpretation

    • Eren Duzgun
    Pages 265-290

  13. Uncertainty, Contingency, and Late Development in Taiwan

    • Christopher Isett
    Pages 291-315

  14. Rethinking the Rules of Reproduction and the Transition to Capitalism: Reading Federici and Brenner Together

    • Nicole Leach
    Pages 317-342

  15. Conclusion

    • Xavier Lafrance, Charles Post
    Pages 343-352

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 353-355
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About this book

This edited volume builds and expands on the groundbreaking work of Robert Brenner and Ellen Meiksins Wood on the origins of capitalism. Whereas Brenner and Wood focused mostly on the emergence of capitalism in the English countryside (agrarian capitalism), this book utilizes their approach to offer original, theoretically sophisticated, and empirically informed accounts of transitions to capitalism – both agrarian and industrial – in a wide range of countries in order to provide within a single volume a diverse collection of relatively brief yet detailed case studies of the historical transition to capitalism distributed across three continents. Offering a new and highly original analysis of the global spread of capitalism, this book will be a unique contribution to the longstanding debate on the transition to capitalism.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Québec in Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Xavier Lafrance

  • Graduate Center and Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA

    Charles Post

About the editors

Xavier Lafrance is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Québec in Montréal, Canada

Charles Post is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York, USA


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