The Origins of Capitalism and the "Rise of the West"Temple University Press, 13 août 2008 - 256 pages In this study, Eric Mielants provides a novel interdisciplinary interpretation of the origins of modernity and capitalism in particular. He argues that contrary to popular thinking, the Rise of the West should not be analyzed in terms of the Industrial Revolution or the colonization of the New World, but viewed from long-term developments that occurred in the Middle Ages. A fascinating overview of different civilizations in East Asia, South Asia, and Northwestern Africa is provided and systematically compared and contrasted with Western Europe. This book addresses some of the major debates that have recently unfolded in world history, comparative sociology, political economy, sociological theory and historical sociology. Mielants indicates how many existing theories (such as Marxism, World-Systems Theory and Smithian Modernization Theory) have suffered from either Eurocentric or limited temporal and spatial analyses, which prevents them from a complete understanding of why the origins of capitalism and citizenship emerged in Western Europe. |
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Chapter Two The Political Economies of China and Europe Compared | 47 |
Chapter Three The Political Economies of South Asia and Europe Compared | 86 |
Chapter Four The Political Economies of Western Europe and Northern Africa Compared | 125 |
Chapter Five Conclusion Was the WesternEuropean CityState in the Middle Ages a European Miracle? | 154 |
Bibliography | 163 |
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14th century accumulation agricultural areas Ashtor Asian Balard Blockmans Boone bourgeoisie Brenner Cambridge University Press capitalism capitalist Central China Chinese cities colonial commercial commodities countryside crucial d'Histoire Delhi Delhi Sultanate division of labor domination dynasty early modern East Economic History Economica F Éditions elites Empire England European city-states expansion exploitation exported feudal France guilds Ifriqiya imperial important Indian Ocean industry inter-city-state Islamic Italian Journal Late Medieval Levtzion London Low Countries Maghreb Mamluk maritime trade Medieval médiévale Mediterranean mercantile military Ming Mollat Mongol Moyen Âge Muslim nation-state nobility nomadic North African Oxford University Press Paris Pax Mongolica peasants policies political Presses Universitaires Prevenier production Ptak putting-out system region rural Siècle Sijilmassa Société Society socioeconomic South Asia Southeast Asia Storia Economica structure Studies Sultanate Sung Sung dynasty textile towns transition urban wage Wallerstein Western Europe Western European world-economy world-system Yuan dynasties
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Page 2 - The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
Page 2 - A new and international division of labor, a division suited to the requirements of the chief centers of modern industry springs up, and converts one part of the globe into a chiefly agricultural field of production for supplying the other part which remains a chiefly industrial field.