ITEM OVERVIEW
In this incisive study, Woods refutes most existing accounts of the origin of capitalism, which, she argues, fail to recognize capitalism's distinctive attributes as a social system, making it seem natural and inevitable. From Adam Smith and Max Weber to the great Marxist debates among writers such as Brenner, Perry Anderson, and E.P. Thompson, she concludes with her own account of capitalism's agrarian origin, challenging the association of capitalism with cities, the identification of capitalist with bourgeois and conceptions of modernity and postmodernity derived from these assumptions. Now in an extensively revised and expanded edition—with lots of new material on imperialism, anti-Eurocentric history, capitalism and the Nation-State, and the differences between capitalism and non-capitalist commerce.
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