How The West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 19 - Politics and International Studies
- Output identifier
- 20671
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.2307/j.ctt183pb6f
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- ISBN
- 9780745335216
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book was the culmination of an extended piece of research, involving the collection and analysis of primary and secondary sources across complex, multi-layered and large bodies of material, including (but not limited to) 13th–15th century pandemics, 15th-17th century Ottoman expansion, 15th-18th century conquests of the Americas, the transatlantic slave trade, 17th century Dutch colonisation of Asia, 16th century English agrarian production, 18th-19th century British colonisation of South Asia. It also involved presenting critical insights into debates on the origins of capitalism, the so-called rise of the west, colonialism and racialisation, capitalist crisis, Marxism and uneven and combined development.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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