RELENTLESS REVOLUTION PA

by APPLEBY,JOYCE

• ISBN13: 9780393339390
• ISBN10: 0393339394
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2011-03-17
• Publisher: W W NORTON

Summary

With its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system seems universal and timeless. The framework for our lives, it is a source of constant change, sometimes measured and predictable, sometimes drastic, out of control. Yet what is now ubiquitous was not always so. Capitalism was an unlikely development when it emerged from isolated changes in farming, trade, and manufacturing in early-modern England. Astute observers began to notice these changes and register their effects. Those in power began to harness these new practices to the state, enhancing both. A system generating wealth, power, and new ideas arose to reshape societies in a constant surge of change. Approaching capitalism as a culture, as a historical development that was by no means natural or inevitable, Joyce Appleby gives us a fascinating introduction to this most potent creation of mankind from its origins to its present global reach.

Author Biography

Joyce Appleby, professor of history emerita at UCLA, was awarded the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Prize for distinguished writing in American history from the Society of American Historians. She lives in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
The Puzzle of Capitalism	p. 3
Trading in New Directions	p. 27
Crucial Developments in the Countryside	p. 56
Commentary on Markets and Human Nature	p. 87
The Two Faces of Eighteenth-Century Capitalism	p. 121
The Ascent of Germany and the United States	p. 163
The Industrial Leviathans and Their Opponents	p. 200
Rulers as Capitalists	p. 228
War and Depression	p. 265
A New Level of Prosperity	p. 288
Capitalism in New Settings	p. 331
Into the Twenty-first Century	p. 365
Of Crises and Critics	p. 400
Notes	p. 437
Index	p. 461
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