Banaji A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-64259-211-5
Verlag: Haymarket Books
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated – by both laypeople and Marxist historians – with the industrial capitalism that made its decisive breakthrough in 18th century Britain. Jairus Banaji’s new work reaches back centuries and traverses vast distances to argue that this leap was preceded by a long era of distinct “commercial capitalism”, which reorganised labor and production on a world scale to a degree hitherto rarely appreciated.
Rather than a picture centred solely on Europe, we enter a diverse and vibrant world. Banaji reveals the cantons of Muslim merchants trading in Guangzhou since the eighth century, the 3,000 European traders recorded in Alexandria in 1216, the Genoese, Venetians and Spanish Jews battling for commercial dominance of Constantinople and later Istanbul. We are left with a rich and global portrait of a world constantly in motion, tied together and increasingly dominated by a pre-industrial capitalism. The rise of Europe to world domination, in this view, has nothing to do with any unique genius, but rather a distinct fusion of commercial capitalism with state power.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Banaji, Jairus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: Reinstating Commercial Capitalism
Chapter Two: The Infrastructure of Commercial Capitalism
Chapter Three: The Competition of Capitals: Struggles for Commercial Dominance from the 12th to 18th Centuries
Chapter Four: British Mercantile Capitalism and the Cosmopolitanism of the Nineteenth Century
Chapter Five: Commercial Practices : Putting-Out, or the Capitalist Domestic Industries
Chapter Six: The Circulation of Commercial Capitals: Competition, Velocity, Verticality
Appendix: Islam and Capitalism
Notes
Select bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Jairus Banaji spent most of his academic life at Oxford. He has been a Research Associate in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, for the past several years. He is the author of Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2007), Theory as History (Haymarket Books, 2011) — for which he won the prestigious Isaac and Tamara Deutsche Memorial Prize — and numerous other volumes and articles.