The Pristine Culture of Capitalism

Capitalism was born in England yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have come from elsewhere notably from France the historical model of “bourgeois” society. In this lively and wide-ranging book Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity especially the emergence of a “modern” state and political culture in Continental Europe signalled the persistence of precapitalist social property relations. Conversely the absence of a “modern” state an...See More