Jairus Banaji

A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism

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Produktbeschreibung

Spanning centuries and continents, this short work fundamentally reconfigures our view of the rise of capitalism on the world stage.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9781642591323
• ISBN-10: 1642591327
• Artikelnr.: 57363822

Autorenporträt

Jairus Banaji spent most of his academic life at Oxford. He has been a Research Associate in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, for the past several years. He is the author of Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2007), Theory as History (Haymarket Books, 2011) — for which he won the prestigious Isaac and Tamara Deutsche Memorial Prize — and numerous other volumes and articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Reinstating Commercial Capitalism
Chapter Two: The Infrastructure of Commercial Capitalism
Chapter Three: The Competition of Capitals: Struggles for Commercial
Dominance from the 12th to 18th Centuries
Chapter Four: British Mercantile Capitalism and the Cosmopolitanism of the
Nineteenth Century
Chapter Five: Commercial Practices : Putting-Out, or the Capitalist
Domestic Industries
Chapter Six: The Circulation of Commercial Capitals: Competition, Velocity,
Verticality
Appendix: Islam and Capitalism
Notes
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