Empire Of Capital by Ellen Wood
A History of the Present
This book traces the historical rise of modern capitalism and argues that the global spread of market relations was neither natural nor inevitable but a politically driven process in which states, colonialism and class power reshaped societies to serve capitalist accumulation; it shows how marketization commodified land, labor and law, relied on coercion and dispossession as well as trade and finance, and produced distinctive forms of imperial power and inequality, challenging accounts that treat globalization as merely the extension of neutral markets and pointing toward the political roots and contradictions of capitalist rule.
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- 2003
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- 272 pages
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