Trevor Jackson

The Insatiable Machine (eBook, ePUB)

How Capitalism Conquered the World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A concise, colorful, and convincing account of capitalism's rise to global dominance.

Today, virtually the entire world lives under the economic system called capitalism, and most people alive have never known another. But as the economic historian Trevor Jackson argues in this powerful book, It wasn't always capitalism, it didn't have to be capitalism, and capitalism didn't have to be this way. How did it happen? With a firm grasp on history and economics and a keen eye for the telling anecdote, Jackson explains the rise of capitalism from the discovery of the New World to the First World War. A fastpaced work of global history that explores the role of Chinese mulberry trees, Dutch tulips, and whale blubberalong with Spanish conquistadors, Mexican mine workers, and English bankersThe Insatiable Machine traces capitalism's development from the accidental construction of an international monetary system to the creation of banking, the emergence of a new form of slavery, fossilfuel industrialization, and finally the global capitalist system spread by imperialism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324106883
• Artikelnr.: 75601467

Autorenporträt

Trevor Jackson is an economic historian at University of California, Berkeley, who also writes for the New York Review of Books, Nation, Dissent, and Baffler. He is the author of a monograph, Impunity and Capitalism. He lives in Berkeley, California.