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Beschreibung
From the seventeenth century to the First World War, both free and unfree labor were essential for building an empire. This ambitious study examines the relationship between capitalism and coercion across the British, French and Russian empires throughout centuries of economic transformation. Overturning conventional explanations of serfdom, slavery, indentured migration and wage labor, Alessandro Stanziani demonstrates the dominance of aristocratic capitalism across Europe and Eurasia until the end of the nineteenth century. He links the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the Great Transformation into a single narrative in which the coercion and emancipation of labor are crucial steps. Stanziani argues that, if the modern state is now beset with labor inequalities and tensions surrounding mobility, it is not because Western values have been hijacked but because they were built on empire, labor and coercion.
From the seventeenth century to the First World War, both free and unfree labor were essential for building an empire. This ambitious study examines the relationship between capitalism and coercion across the British, French and Russian empires throughout centuries of economic transformation. Overturning conventional explanations of serfdom, slavery, indentured migration and wage labor, Alessandro Stanziani demonstrates the dominance of aristocratic capitalism across Europe and Eurasia until the end of the nineteenth century. He links the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the Great Transformation into a single narrative in which the coercion and emancipation of labor are crucial steps. Stanziani argues that, if the modern state is now beset with labor inequalities and tensions surrounding mobility, it is not because Western values have been hijacked but because they were built on empire, labor and coercion.
Über den Autor
Alessandro Stanziani is Professor of Global History at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and Senior Researcher at the CNRS. He is the author of Earth Capital: The Long History of Capitalism and Its Aftermath.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; Part I. Labor Rules and Colonization: 1. The Russian way: peasants, landowners and the empire; 2. The British empire: coercion in the name of freedom; 3. The French touch: protecting men in urban industry, excluding rural people, women and colonies; Part II. The Economics of Bondage: 4. The Russian empire and the economic dynamics of serfdom; 5. Labor and the British Industrial Revolution; 6. International trade, slavery and the industrial revolution; 7. With or without you. France and the empire of sugar; Part III. Labor Empires Under Attack. From Abolition to the Great Transformation, 1840-1918: 8. Who is the true slave?; 9. The aristocratic abolition of serfdom in Russia; 10. Abolition in the United States and the great transformation; 11 Neo-colonialism in the age of the welfare state; General conclusion and extrapolations.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781009608572
ISBN-10: 1009608576
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Stanziani, Alessandro
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Alessandro Stanziani
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.11.2025
Gewicht: 0,522 kg
Artikel-ID: 134347371

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