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Review: The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer ViewUser Review - Bill - GoodreadsExcellent critique of the origin of capitalism and accessible to all readers. No "over the top" economic proselytizing even if her main basis is a Marxian revisionist point of view. Good points about ... Read full review Review: The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer ViewUser Review - Zach - GoodreadsIn which Wood is at great pains to remind us that capitalism is not a natural force or state but a historically-specific set of market imperatives. Amen. She is less convincing when arguing that the ... Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesabsolutist agrarian capitalism agriculture appropriation argument basic bourgeois bourgeois revolution bourgeoisie Brenner capitalist capitalist development capitalist imperatives class struggle coercion coercive colonial commercial society commercial system commercialization model cultural development of capitalism direct producers dispossession distinctive domestic dominant Dutch Republic E. P. Thompson early modern economic development emergence enclosure England English Enlightenment especially Eurocentric Europe European explain exploitation expropriation extra-economic feudalism France French French Revolution global historians imperatives of competition improvement increasingly industrial capitalism international trade Ireland Karl Polanyi kind labour-power labour-productivity land landlords laws of motion logic London market dependence market imperatives market society Marxist means merchants military nation natural non-capitalist origin of capitalism peasants Perry Anderson Polanyi politically constituted property postmodernity pre-capitalist primitive accumulation principles productive forces profit rents rise of capitalism role social form social property relations specific surplus labour Sweezy technological tenants tion transformation transition to capitalism Verso wage labour wealth References to this bookFrom Google ScholarEnglish feudalism and the origins of capitalismGeorge C Comninel - 2000 - Journal of Peasant Studies From Peasant Studies to Agrarian ChangeHenry Bernstein, Terence J Byres - 2001 - Journal of Agrarian Change The Low Countries in the Transition to CapitalismRobert P Brenner - 2001 - Journal of Agrarian Change Theorizing the transnational: a historical materialist approachBastiaan van Apeldoorn - 2004 - Journal of International Relations and Development References from web pagesThe Origin of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood. JSTOR: The Origin of Capitalism The Origin of Capitalism Weekly Worker 320 Thursday January 27 2000 The origin of capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood | librarything Book Review: Meiksins Wood, Ellen. The Origin of Capitalism (1999 ... New Statesman - The wealth of nations. Capitalism, far from being ... Ellen Meiksins Wood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A Comment on Capitalist Origins | Solidarity BOOKS REVIEW Bibliographic information |