Ebook: The birth of capitalism: a twenty-first-century perspective

In the light of the deepening crisis of capitalism and continued non-Western capitalist accumulation, this book re-examines the debates surrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe and elsewhere.;Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction: problems and methods -- 1 The decline of feudalism -- 2 Experiments in capitalism: Italy, Germany, France -- 3 English capitalism -- 4 Bourgeois revolution -- 5 Political capitalism -- 6 The Industrial revolution: Marxist perspectives -- 7 Capitalism and world history -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.