How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism, 1st Edition

*Winner of International Studies Association (ISA)’s International Political Sociology Best Book Prize for 2017**Winner of British International Studies Association (BISA)’s International Political Economy Working Group Book Prize of 2016**Shortlisted for the ISA Book Prize*Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundamentally European – a system that was born in the mills and factories of England or under the guillotines of the French Revolution. In this groundbreaking book, a very different story is told.How the West Came to Rule offers a interdisciplinary and international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues that contrary to the dominant wisdom, capitalism’s origins should not be understood as a development confined to the geographically and culturally sealed borders of Europe, but the outcome of a wider array of global processes in which non-European societies played a decisive role.Through an outline of the uneven histories of Mongolian expansion, New World discoveries, Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry, the development of the Asian colonies and bourgeois revolutions, Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu provide an account of how these diverse events and processes came together to produce capitalism.How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism 1st Edition is written by Alexander Anievas; Kerem Ni?anc?olu and published by Pluto Press. ISBNs for How the West Came to Rule are 9781783713233, 1783713232 and the print ISBNs are 9780745336152, 0745336159. Additional ISBNs include 9780745335216, 9781783713240.