Pristine Culture of Capitalism A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States

Name: Pristine Culture of Capitalism A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States
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ISBN: 9780860915720

ISBN-10: 0860915727

ISBN-13: 9780860915720

Edition: 1991

Authors: Ellen Meiksins Wood

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The fundamental flaws in the British economy are not just the symptoms of arrested development but the contradictions of the capitalist system itself. Britain today, Wood maintains, is the most thoroughly capitalist culture in Europe. Weaving together economic and political history with the history of ideas, Wood ranges across a broad spectrum of current debates, from the "Nairn-Anderson theses" to the contribution of J.C.D. Clark and Alan Macfarlane, and over a wide variety of topics: the development of British capitalism and French absolutism; the state, the nation and their symbolic representations; revolution and tradition; the cultural patterns of English speech, urbanism, ruralism and…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 12/17/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English