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Mielants, Eric H.

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The origins of capitalism and the "rise of the West" revisited.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The origins of capitalism and the "rise of the West" revisited./
Author:	Mielants, Eric H.
Description:	301 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-12, Section: A, page: 4339.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-12A.
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3035486
ISBN:	9780493484624

The origins of capitalism and the "rise of the West" revisited.
Mielants, Eric H.

The origins of capitalism and the "rise of the West" revisited. - 301 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-12, Section: A, page: 4339.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2001.

The city-state made constant capital accumulation possible. This institutional vehicle of exploitation is exceptional to Western Europe, and explains its unique 'path dependence'. Equally important is the absence of a world empire or the recurring destructive raids of pastoral nomads on the emerging centers of capital accumulation. The relative lack of political power that merchants could wield elsewhere is discussed. And where city-states did exist---in Northern Africa and Western Europe---the latter were more powerful than the former, much to the detriment of the latter's potential development. Wherever rural overlords were capable of exercising much extra-economic coercion, it diminished the degree of successful and consistent implementation of mercantilist policies---and whenever implemented it was not to the advantage of the merchant elite. Because European states---whose administration increasingly relied on the bourgeoisie---used their state power to support mercantilist policies overseas, European merchants were capable of eventually dominating the non-European world. The lack of productivity of Western Europe's soil also limited the possibilities of economic expansion on the European continent: the creation of subjugated peripheries and monopolistic control over trade routes outside of Europe were the only strategies available. A systematic policy of capital accumulation derived from an ongoing process of colonization, exploitation and domination of a subjugated periphery by a core area, was an exceptional process set in motion by European merchants. This process first occurred in the Mediterranean, the countryside of European cities, Eastern Europe and was subsequently copied (with certain modifications) in the non-European arena. The military power concentrated in the hands of European merchant elites first enabled, and subsequently guaranteed, increasing returns and market expansion in Europe and the non-European world. Modern forms of capital accumulation, based on military and technological power, degrees of monopolization, colonization and abuse of workers in dispersed regions are rooted in long term processes of capitalist exploitation generated in Western Europe. The city-state in which the merchant class accumulated its power, established the notion of citizenship and the putting out system, concurrent with colonization and peripheralization, to the benefit of the same merchant class.

ISBN: 9780493484624Subjects--Topical Terms:

516174
Sociology.

The origins of capitalism and the "rise of the West" revisited.
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