Capitalisms: Towards a Global History

by Kaveh Yazdani (Editor), Dilip M. Menon (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199499717
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/05/2020
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 5.70(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Kaveh Yazdani, Lecturer (akademischer Rat) in economic history, University of Bielefeld, Dilip M. Menon, Mellon Chair of Indian Studies, Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa


Dr Kaveh Yazdani teaches economic history at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His scholarly interests include the 'Great Divergence' debate and the history of South and West Asia between the 17th and 20th centuries. He is the author of India, Modernity and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (2017).

Professor Dilip M. Menon is the Mellon Chair of Indian Studies and the Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa at the University of Witwatersrand. He is the author of Caste, Nationalism and Communism in South India: Malabar, 1900-1948 (1994).

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionKaveh Yazdani, Dilip M. MenonPart I: Major Debates and Controversies1. Silver, Globalization, and CapitalismDennis O. Flynn2. New World Slavery in the Capitalist World-EconomyLeonardo Marques3. Russian Capitalism: Exceptionalism vs Global Labour Intensive Path, 1700-1914Alessandro Stanziani4. The Cambridge History of Capitalism: IndiaDavid Washbrook5. Mysore's Pre-Colonial Potentialities of Capitalist Development and IndustrializationKaveh Yazdani6. Capitalism's Missing Link: What Happened to Southeast Asia? Eric Tagliacozzo7. The Birth of Capitalism in Global PerspectiveHenry HellerPart II: Case Studies in the Histories of Capitalisms8. One-Off Capitalism in Song China, 960-1279 ADKent Deng9. The First Capitalist Nation: The Development of Capitalism in EnglandJoseph Inikori10. The Thin Line between Economic Dynamism and Social Stability: Regulation and Deregulation in Japan (twelfth to the nineteenth C.)Masaki Nakabayashi11. The View from Early Modern China: Capitalism and the Jingdezhen Ceramics IndustryAnne Gerritsen12. Artisans, Guilds, and Capitalist Development in Cairo, 1600-1800Nelly Hanna13. Iranian Capitalism: Exceptionalism and Delayed DevelopmentRudi MattheeNotes on Editors and ContributorsIndex

Editorial Reviews

"Recommended." — B. Roman, St. Mary's University, CHOICE

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