Ellen Meiksins Wood: 9 books
The Pristine Culture of Capitalism
A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A historical essay on old regimes and modern states
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, signaled the persistence...
Citizens to Lords
A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood lays out her innovative approach to the history of political theory and traces the development of the Western tradition from classical antiquity through the late Middle Ages. Her “social history” is a significant departure from other contextual...
The Origin of Capitalism
A Longer View
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe?
In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth...
Democracy Against Capitalism
Renewing Historical Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of “postmodern” fragmentation, “difference,” and con-tingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique. In this book she sets out to renew the critical program of historical materialism...
L'origine du capitalisme
Une étude approfondie
Language: French
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Qu’est-ce que le capitalisme ? Cette question, l’histoire la pose chaque fois que ce système entre en crise, étalant au grand jour ses absurdités. Pour y répondre, il faut en comprendre les origines. Voilà ce que propose Ellen Meiksins Wood dans cet ouvrage d’une actualité brûlante.
The Retreat from Class
A New 'True' Socialsim
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Exploring the connections between class, ideology and politics
In this classic study, which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, Ellen Wood provides a critical survey of influential trends in “post-Marxist” theory. Challenging their dissociation of politics from class, she elaborates...
Liberty and Property
A Social History of Western Political Thought from the Renaissance to Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment have all been attributed to the “early modern” period. Nearly everything about its history remains controversial, but one thing is certain: it left...
Peasant-Citizen and Slave
The Foundations of Athenian Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically...
by Ellen Meiksins Wood
Language: French
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Il semble évident de nos jours que l’hégémonie américaine ne compte pas s’affirmer par la construction d’un empire colonial. Pourtant, la puissance militaire des États-Unis est la plus importante et la plus redoutable que le monde ait jamais connue. Comment expliquer ce paradoxe ?