Long Twentieth Century Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times

Name: Long Twentieth Century Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times
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ISBN: 9781844673049

ISBN-10: 1844673049

ISBN-13: 9781844673049

Edition: 2009 (Revised)

Authors: Giovanni Arrighi

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Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award for Distinguished Scholarship: a comprehensive analysis of the development of world capitalism over the millennium. The Long Twentieth Centurytraces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Building on the work of Fernand Braudel, Arrighi argues that the history of capitalism has unfolded as a succession of "long centuries"--ages during which a hegemonic power deploying a novel combination of economic and political networks secured control over an expanding world-economic space. The book concludes with an examination of the forces which have shaped and are now…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 2/16/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.23" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 1.452



List of Figures


Preface and Acknowledgements


Introduction



The Three Hegemonies of Historical Capitalism


Hegemony, Capitalism, and Territorialism


The Origins of the Modern Interstate System


British Hegemony and Free-Trade Imperialism


US Hegemony and the Rise of the Free Enterprise System


Towards a New Research Agenda



The Rise of Capital


The Antecedents of Systemic Cycles of Accumulation


The Genesis of High Finance


The First (Genoese) Systemic Cycle of Accumulation


The Second (Dutch) Systemic Cycle of Accumulation


The Dialectic of State and Capital



Industry, Empire, and the "Endless" Accumulation of Capital


The Third (British) Systemic Cycle of Accumulation


The Dialectic of Capitalism and Territorialism


The Dialectic of Capitalism and Territorialism (Continued)


Reprise and Preview



The Long Twentieth Century


The Dialectic of Market and Plan


The Fourth (US) Systemic Cycle of Accumulation


The Dynamics of Global Crisis


Epilogue: Can Capitalism Survive Success?


Postscript to the Second Edition


References


Index