How the West Came to Rule

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The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism

By Kerem Nişancıoğlu and Alexander Anievas

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How the West Came to Rule offers a groundbreaking interdisciplinary account of the origins of capitalism, challenging the traditional view that it was solely a European development. Exploring global processes such as Mongolian expansion, New World discoveries, Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry, Asian colonial development, and bourgeois revolutions, the authors reveal how diverse events beyond Europe collectively shaped capitalism.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in global history, political economy, and interdisciplinary scholarship on capitalism's formation.

A non-Eurocentric, sweeping look at the material conditions and events that created capitalism

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Winner of International Studies Association (ISA)'s International Political Sociology Best Book Prize for 2017

Winner of British International Studies Association (BISA)'s International Political Economy Working Group Book Prize of 2016

Shortlisted for the ISA Book Prize

Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundamentally European—a system that was born in the mills and factories of England or under the guillotines of the French Revolution. In this groundbreaking book, a very different story is told.

How the West Came to Rule offers an interdisciplinary and international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues that, contrary to the dominant wisdom, capitalism's origins should not be understood as a development confined to the geographically and culturally sealed borders of Europe, but as the outcome of a wider array of global processes in which non-European societies played a decisive role.

Through an outline of the uneven histories of Mongolian expansion, New World discoveries, Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry, the development of the Asian colonies, and bourgeois revolutions, Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nişancıoğlu provide an account of how these diverse events and processes came together to produce capitalism.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780745336152

Publisher: Pluto Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 June 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pluto Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 560g

Pages: 404

Collections

Alexander Anievas Education & Reference Finance & Economics Finance & Investment History & Archaeology History & Military Kerem Nişancıoğlu Non-Fiction Politics & Current Affairs

About the Author

Alexander Anievas is Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Capital, the State, and War 1914-1945 (University of Michigan Press, 2014), How the West Came to Rule (Pluto, 2015) and editor of Marxism and World Politics: Contesting Global Capitalism (Routledge, 2010). Kerem Nişancıoğlu is a Lecturer in International Relations at SOAS, University of London. He is the co-author of How the West Came to Rule (Pluto, 2015), and co-editor of Decolonising the University (Pluto, 2018). He also blogs at The Disorder of Things.