Structure of World History From Modes of Production to Modes of Exchange

Name: Structure of World History From Modes of Production to Modes of Exchange
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ISBN: 9780822356769

ISBN-10: 0822356767

ISBN-13: 9780822356769

Edition: 2014

Authors: Kojin Karatani, Michael K. Bourdaghs

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In this major, paradigm-shifting work, Kojin Karatani systematically rereads Marx's version of world history, shifting the focus of critique from modes of production to modes of exchange. Karatani seeks to understand both Capital-Nation-State, the interlocking system that is the dominant form of modern global society, and the possibilities for superseding it. In The Structure of World History, he traces different modes of exchange, including the pooling of resources that characterizes nomadic tribes, the gift exchange systems developed after the adoption of fixed-settlement agriculture, the exchange of obedience for protection that arises with the emergence of the state, the commodity…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 3/28/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English