{"product_id":"how-the-west-came-to-rule-by-kerem-nisancioglu-9780745336152","title":"How the West Came to Rule","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of International Studies Association (ISA)'s International Political Sociology Best Book Prize for 2017\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of British International Studies Association (BISA)'s International Political Economy Working Group Book Prize of 2016\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShortlisted for the ISA Book Prize\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMainstream 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow the West Came to Rule\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596603965676,"sku":"9780745336152","price":131.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/4ab6aac2ff7c3a091ceb80b969261f58.jpg?v=1777940863","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/how-the-west-came-to-rule-by-kerem-nisancioglu-9780745336152","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}