Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America : Transatlantic Exchanges 1800 to the Present Day

by Edited by Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann

• ISBN13: 9780333980811
• ISBN10: 0333980816
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2003-01-04
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book is an innovative collection of essays by a new generation of British and American historians and political theorists. The volume explores how critical traditions and beliefs have helped to shape capitalism. Chapters follow diverse critiques in Britain and America and explore their Atlantic and imperial exchanges. The volume includes chapters on questions of law and property in the Victorian empire; traditions of land reform in 19th century America and Britain; the influence of American romanticism on British socialism; the role of Britain in American progressivism; American and British consumer protection; the evolution of trusteeship and ideas of cosmopolitan democracy; the 'third way' and narratives of globalization.

Author Biography

Mark Bevir is in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Frank Trentmann is at the School of History, Birkbeck College.

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors	vii
Critique within Capitalism: Historiographical Problems, Theoretical Perspectives	1	(25)
Mark Bevir
Frank Trentmann
Land Reform and Political Traditions in Nineteenth-century Britain and the United States	26	(23)
Jamie L. Bronstein
Freedom of Contract, the Market and Imperial Law-making	49	(24)
Sandra den Otter
British Socialism and American Romanticism	73	(25)
Mark Bevir
Britain, Europe and the Critique of Capitalism in American Reform, 1880--1920	98	(29)
Axel R. Schafer
Getting Your Money's Worth: American Models for the Remaking of the Consumer Interest in Britain, 1930s--1960s	127	(24)
Christopher Beauchamp
Trust and Self-determination: Anglo-American Ethics of Empire and International Government	151	(23)
Kevin Grant
Cosmopolitanism, Rawls and the English School	174	(21)
Simon Caney
New Labour and `Third Way' Political Economy: Paving the European Road to Washington?	195	(26)
Colin Hay
Index	221