The Ellen Meiksins Wood Reader

Front Cover
Ellen Meiksins Wood, Larry Patriquin
BRILL, Oct 12, 2012 - Political Science - 336 pages
This Reader includes selections from Ellen Meiksins Wood’s groundbreaking scholarship, providing an overview of her original interpretations of capitalism, precapitalist societies, the state, political theory, democracy, citizenship, liberalism, civil society, the Enlightenment, globalization, imperialism, and socialism.
 

Contents

The Method of Ellen Meiksins Wood
1
Chapter One Capitalism
18
Chapter Two Precapitalist Societies
62
Chapter Three The State in Historical Perspective
92
Chapter Four Social and Political Thought
141
Chapter Five Democracy Citizenship Liberalism and Civil Society
183
Chapter Six The Enlightenment Postmodernism and the PostNew Left
221
Chapter Seven Globalisation and Imperialism
244
Chapter Eight Socialism
267
Bibliography of Works by Ellen Meiksins Wood19702012
311
References
317
Index
325
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

About the author (2012)

Ellen Meiksins Wood is Professor Emerita in the Department of Political Science, York University. She is the author of numerous books, including "Democracy against Capitalism," "The Origin of Capitalism," "Citizens to Lords" and, most recently, "Liberty and Property." Larry Patriquin is Associate Professor of Social Welfare and Social Development, Nipissing University. He is the author of "Inventing Tax Rage" and "Agrarian Capitalism and Poor Relief in England, 1500-1860."