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The Pristine Culture of Capitalism

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

The Pristine Culture of Capitalism

By Ellen Meiksins Wood

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About the book

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 what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially the emergence of a "modern" state and political culture in Continental Europe, signalled the persistence of precapitalist social property relations. Conversely, the absence of a "modern" s...Show more

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9781784781033

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Verso Books

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2015

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The Pristine Culture of Capitalism

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