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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
If you want to understand what capitalism really is and how it really developed, this is the book to read.
informative
medium-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced
a book from which I only took in 70% of what was said, mostly beacusd what was being said was so unexpected and challenging (to my assumptions).
Wood’s rigorous distinction between ‘commerce’ and ‘capital,’ (and consequently between perennial and abstract ‘market opportunities’ and historically situated and concrete ‘market imperatives’), alone makes this an essential read.
It is made exceptional by both Wood’s extension of this analysis to an account of the rise of English agrarian capitalism and her disentanglement of the historical relations between capital, industrialism, imperialism, the nation-state, and modernity.
My only criticism is that Wood’s treatment of the interconnections between modernity, the enlightenment, and capitalism are somewhat rushed and, resultantly, not entirely convincing. However, in the scheme of this otherwise excellent work, this is a minor shortcoming.
It is made exceptional by both Wood’s extension of this analysis to an account of the rise of English agrarian capitalism and her disentanglement of the historical relations between capital, industrialism, imperialism, the nation-state, and modernity.
My only criticism is that Wood’s treatment of the interconnections between modernity, the enlightenment, and capitalism are somewhat rushed and, resultantly, not entirely convincing. However, in the scheme of this otherwise excellent work, this is a minor shortcoming.
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