The Ellen Meiksins Wood ReaderEllen Meiksins Wood, Larry Patriquin 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 |
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