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

Paperback • 1991 • English

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

By Ellen Meiksins Wood

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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 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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9780860915720

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Verso

Published year

1991

Language

English

Original title

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

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Paperback

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