How the West Came to Rule

offers a unique interdisciplinary and international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues that contrary to dominant wisdom capitalism''s origins should not be understood as a development confined to the geographically and culturally sealed borders of Europe but the outcome of a wider array of global processes in which non-European societies played a decisive role. Through an outline of the uneven histories of Mongolian expansion new world discoveries ottoman-habsburg rivalry the development of the colonies and bourgeois revolutions Alex anievas and kerem nisancioglu offer an account of capitalism''s origins that convincingly argues against the prevailing Eurocentric narratives.