The Capitalist Era: The Making-and Unmaking-of the Global Mind

A sweeping history of global interdependence from the late eighteenth to the twenty-first century—with essential lessons for today

In The Capitalist Era, leading global historian Jeremy Adelman puts the world’s current unwinding in much-needed historical perspective. Combining political, economic, intellectual, and environmental history, the book tells the epic story of the forces that, since the late eighteenth century, have transformed the world into a single but fractured survival unit th...