The Pristine Culture of Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States by Ellen Meiksins Wood

The Pristine Culture of Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States

Ellen Meiksins Wood

212 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative medium-paced
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Capitalism was born in England, yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have come from elsewhere, notably from France, the historical model of "bourgeois" society. In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that wha...

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