- Capitalism, History, Capitalisme, Histoire
"In The Origin of Capitalism, Ellen Meiksins Wood challenges most existing accounts of capitalism's origins, arguing that they fail to recognize its distinctive attributes as a social system by making its emergence seem natural and inevitable."--BOOK JACKET. "Only with a proper understanding of capitalism's beginning, Wood holds, can we imagine the possibility of it ending."--BOOK JACKET.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Grave, earnest, cool and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Ellen Meiksins Wood
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press, Verso
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781583670002
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 3 have read it and 22 want to.
Ellen Meiksins Wood (April 12, 1942 – January 14, 2016) was an American Marxist historian and scholar. **Source**: [Ellen Meiksins Wood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Meiksins_Wood) on Wikipedia.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Debt 201183% alikeBoth earnest, cool, grave.
Imagined communities 198378% alikeBoth cool, grave, earnest.
World order 197578% alikeBoth cool, grave, classical in form.
Both grave, cool, earnest.
The origins of political order 201177% alikeBoth cool, earnest, grave.
Both grave, earnest, cool.
Imperialism 192976% alikeBoth grave, earnest, cool.
Manufacturing consent 198876% alikeBoth grave, earnest, cool.
Film · Both grave, earnest, classical in form.
MacArthur 197766% alikeFilm · Both grave, earnest, cool.