1st Edition
From Empires to Imperialism The State and the Rise of Bourgeois Civilisation
By Boris Kagarlitsky
Copyright 2014
374 Pages
by
Routledge
374 Pages
by
Routledge
374 Pages
by
Routledge
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Translated from the original Russian, this book analyzes the economic development of leading European empires and the United States of America. The author exposes the myths of the spontaneous emergence of the market economy and the role of government as a disincentive towards private initiative, when for centuries the state power has been carrying out a "coercing to the market" with all its... Read more
Introduction 1. World Empires 2. Crisis and Revolution in Medieval Europe 3. Reformation and Expansion 4. The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century 5. The Rise of Hegemony 6. The Discovery of 'The West' 7. An Epoch of Wars and Revolutions 8. The Bourgeois Empire 9. Imperialism 10. The Crisis of Hegemony 11. The Change of Hegemony 12. Imperialism without an Empire: The United States Conclusion
Biography
Boris Kagarlitsky is Director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements in Moscow and a Fellow in the Institute for Comparative Political Studies, the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was a political prisoner under Brezhnev and latterly has been an adviser to the Chair of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia.
'[A] good example of current Marxist scholarship.Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduate and graduate social science students.' --S. Prisco III, Stevens Institute of Technology, CHOICE
