Modern Capitalist Culture

by White,Leslie A

• ISBN13: 9781598741575
• ISBN10: 1598741578
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This lost classic by Leslie A. White, published now for the first time, represents twenty-five years of his scholarship on the anthropology of modern capitalism. Drawing out his now classic formulations of social organization, cultural evolution, and the relationship between technology, ecology, and culture, this major theoretical work traces a vast expanse of history from the earliest forms of capitalism to the detailed inner workings of contemporary democratic institutions. A substantial foreword by Burton J. Brown, Benjamin Urish, and Robert Carneiro both situates this posthumous work within the history of anthropological theory and shows its importance to contemporary debates within the discipline.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Introduction	p. 13
The Nature of Capitalist-Democratic Culture	p. 23
Early Development of Capitalist Culture: Tenth to Sixteenth Centuries	p. 31
Development of Capitalist-Democratic Culture: Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries	p. 55
The Fuel Revolution	p. 95
Socio-cultural Consequences of the Fuel Revolution	p. 127
The United States: From Colonial Times to World War I	p. 151
Jungle Capitalism	p. 187
The State-Church in Capitalist-Democratic Society	p. 227
Class Structure and Class Relations	p. 273
Class Structure in the United States: Capital and Labor	p. 311
The Social Organization of Tenure and Control of Wealth	p. 353
Big Business and Government	p. 413
Small Business	p. 437
The Socialization of Wealth	p. 453
Distribution of Wealth and Income	p. 467
From Laissez-Faire to Welfare, Part I	p. 499
From Laissez-Faire to Welfare, Part II	p. 547
Subsides: Government Interference in the Free Enterprise System	p. 593
Mutual Funds	p. 637
Pension Plans	p. 653
Bibliography	p. 677
Index	p. 689
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