Capitalism

A Global History

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<b>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book • A <i>Financial Times </i>Best Book of the Year<br><br><i>"</i>A learned, formidable and vivid story… Readers around the world will study and ponder this monumental work of history, agreeing and arguing with it, all the while affirming its generational importance, for decades to come." — Marcus Rediker, <i>The New York Times<br><br></i>“Epic… Read this book and you will learn innumerable things you did not previously know culled from places you have never been… [Readers], including me, will be genuinely grateful for exposure to this breadth of scholarship and be glad to have a valuable tool of reference on their shelves.” –John Kay, <i>Financial Times <br></i><br>A landmark event years in the making, a brilliant global narrative that unravels the defining story of the past thousand years of human history</b><br><br>No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organize our politics. Sven Beckert, author of the Bancroft Prize–winning <i>Empire of Cotton</i>, places the story of capitalism within the largest conceivable geographical and historical framework, tracing its history during the past millennium and across the world. An epic achievement, his book takes us into merchant businesses in Aden and car factories in Turin, onto the terrifyingly violent sugar plantations in Barbados, and within the world of women workers in textile factories in today’s Cambodia.<br><br>Capitalism, argues Beckert, was born global. Emerging from trading communities across Asia, Africa, and Europe, capitalism’s radical recasting of economic life rooted itself only gradually. But then it burst onto the world scene, as a powerful alliance between European states and merchants propelled them, and their economic logic, across the oceans. This, Beckert shows, was modern capitalism’s big bang, and one of its epicenters was the slave labor camp

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780735220836

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

240 x 166 x 59 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin LLC US