The Pristine Culture of Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern StatesVerso, 17 de dez. de 1991 - 200 páginas 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 and political discourse in England testified to the presence of a well-developed capitalism. The fundamental flaws in the British economy are not just the symptoms of arrested development but the contradictions of the capitalist system itself. Britain today, Wood maintains, is the most thoroughly capitalist culture in Europe. Weaving together economic and political history with the history of ideas, Wood ranges across a broad spectrum of current debates, from the “Nairn–Anderson theses” to the contribution of J.C.D. Clark and Alan Macfarlane, and over a wide variety of topics: the development of British capitalism and French absolutism; the state, the nation and their symbolic representations; revolution and tradition; the cultural patterns of English speech, urbanism, ruralism and the landscape garden; ideas of sovereignty, democracy, property and progress. This book will be as interesting and provocative to observers of contemporary capitalism as to historians of early modern Europe or Western political thought. |
Conteúdo
The Bourgeois Paradigm Marxism and | 11 |
The Modern State | 21 |
The Missing Idea of Sovereignty | 43 |
Popular Sovereignty Democracy and Revolution | 59 |
Components of a Capitalist Culture | 81 |
A National Economy | 95 |
No Great Transformation Model | 117 |
No Great Transformation Model | 145 |
Capitalism and the Ambiguity of Progress | 161 |
Notes | 177 |
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absolutist agrarian capitalism agricultural ancien régime antiquity argument aristocracy bourgeois paradigm bourgeois revolution bourgeoisie Britain British capitalism capitalist development capitalist economy centralization Chartism civil society Clark classical commercial common law competitive conception conflict consent Continental contrast corporate culture David McNally decline democracy democratic distinctive doctrines dominant E.P. Thompson early economic eighteenth century England English capitalism English Civil War English history English individualism Europe European example extra-economic feudal France French historians Ibid idea ideology John Locke jurisdiction labour land landlords less lism Locke Locke's logic London lords Macfarlane Macfarlane's Martin Wiener Marxist modern monarchy Nairn Nairn-Anderson Parliamentary particular patriarchal peasants Perry Anderson political economy Political Thought politically constituted property popular sovereignty pre-capitalist pre-modern principles privilege production property relations radical represented republicanism revolutionary Rodney Hilton royal absolutism ruling class rural social change social relations specific theory tion Tom Nairn tradition transformation unity urban Whig