This new edition is substantially revised and expanded, with extensive new material on imperialism, anti-Eurocentric history, capitalism and the nation-state, and the differences between capitalism and non-capitalist commerce.
The discussion on Locke that follows here is drawn from my chapter on Locke in Ellen Meiksins Wood and Neal Wood , A Trumpet of Sedition : Political Theory and the Rise of Capitalism , 1509–1688 ( London and New York : New York ...
Few questions of history have as many contemporary political implications as this deceptively simple one: how did capitalism come to be?In this clarifying work, Ellen Meiksins Wood refutes most existing...
In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state.
In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state.