Capitalism : a short history
- Author/Creator:
- Kocka, Jürgen, author
- Publication/Creation:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Edition:
- Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- Capitalism : a short history / Jürgen Kocka
- Uniform Title:
- Geschichte des Kapitalismus.
- Related/Included Titles:
- Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface to the English Edition --
1. What Does Capitalism Mean? --
2. Merchant Capitalism --
3. Expansion --
4. The Capitalist Era --
5. Analysis and Critique --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index of Names
Related Names
- Additional Author/Creators:
- Riemer, Jeremiah, 1952-, translator
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Economic history
Capitalism--History
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- 1. What Does Capitalism Mean? -- 2. Merchant Capitalism -- 3. Expansion -- 4. The Capitalist Era -- 5. Analysis and Critique -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Names
- Summary:
- In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial crisis and beyond. From early commercial capitalism in the Arab world, China, and Europe, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century industrialization, to today's globalized financial capitalism, Jürgen Kocka offers an unmatched account of capitalism, one that weighs its great achievements against its great costs, crises, and failures. Based on intensive research, the book puts the rise of capitalist economies in social, political, and cultural context, and shows how their current problems and foreseeable future are connected to a long history.Sweeping in scope, the book describes how capitalist expansion was connected to colonialism; how industrialism brought unprecedented innovation, growth, and prosperity but also increasing inequality; and how managerialism, financialization, and globalization later changed the face of capitalism. The book also addresses the idea of capitalism in the work of thinkers such as Marx, Weber, and Schumpeter, and chronicles how criticism of capitalism is as old as capitalism itself, fed by its persistent contradictions and recurrent emergencies.Authoritative and accessible, Capitalism is an enlightening account of a force that has shaped the modern world like few others.
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- General Note:
- "First published in Germany under 'Geschichte des Kapitalismus', by Jürgen Kocka." --Title page verso.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9937013988302486
- ISBN:
- 1-78684-825-2
1-4008-7341-X - OCLC Number:
- 1132667717
984686913 - Other Identifiers:
- doi: 10.1515/9781400873418
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