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Feb 9, 2021 · Publication Date: 2021-02-09. The relationship between race and capitalism is one of the most enduring and controversial historical debates. The concept of racial capitalism offers a way out of this impasse. Racial capitalism is not simply a permutation, phase, or stage in the larger history of capitalism--since the beginning of the Atlantic ...
About this site. As a field of academic study, the "history of capitalism" sounds new. But it actually has a long history that extends back to the turn of the twentieth century, when "economic history" first emerged as a recognized field of scholarly inquiry. As a discipline, History focused at that time primarily on elite politics or high culture.
Feb 22, 2018 · The New History of American Capitalism. By Sven Beckert and Christine Desan. The new history of American capitalism builds on these disciplinary trends in history, economics, political science, and law; indeed, it would be unimaginable without them. At the same time, it represents a distinctive departure. First—and most basically—the ...
Sep 11, 2017 · In the wake of the Great Recession, a new cycle of scholarship opened on the history of American capitalism. This occurred, however, without much specification of the subject at hand. In this essay, I offer a conceptualization of capitalism, by focusing on its root—capital. Much historical writing has treated capital as a physical factor of ...
Nov 28, 2020 · Capitalism In Global History. This virtual issue affirms the relevance of global history to the history of capitalism, and the relevance of capitalism to global history. Neither proposition is self-evident. ‘Global history’ emerged in the early 1990s, in the wake of the demise of the Soviet Union and an apparently triumphant New World Order ...
Jan 12, 2016 · "For anyone interested in a scholarly overview of the history of capitalism, Jurgen Kocka's short history is a terrific starting point."—Christopher McKenna, World History Connected "Excellent. . . . The book is clearly the outcome of great intellectual investment and application of a vast range of in-depth knowledge.
Feb 13, 2015 · Economic history, which for so long has been focused mostly on “national” questions—the “coming of managerial capitalism” in the United States, “organized capitalism” in Germany, the ...
