Sven Beckert on How Capitalism Made the Modern World
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We live in capitalism like fish in water, so it's very difficult to see it. But but the the but the capitalist logic is a radical departure from previous human history. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. How did capitalism conquer the world? Where did it originate?
And is it possible to tell its story in one? long but one volume work? Well, Sven Beckett is the most prominent historian of what has come to be called global history. His last book, Empire of Cotton, won the Bancroft Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. But now he has
set his eyes on an even more ambitious work called simply Capitalism a Global History. In this book, Beckett argues that the origins of capitalism don't lie in eighteenth or nineteenth century Manchester. They go much further back than that. He argues that Its history is much more international and much more global than we often realize.
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