{"product_id":"the-pristine-culture-of-capitalism-isbn-9781784781033","title":"The Pristine Culture of Capitalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eA historical essay on old regimes and modern states\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially the emergence of a “modern” state and political culture in Continental Europe, signaled the persistence of pre-capitalist social property relations. Conversely, the absence of a “modern” state and political discourse in England testified to the presence of a well-developed capitalism. The fundamental flaws in the British economy are not just the symptoms of arrested development but the contradictions of the capitalist system itself. Britain today, Wood maintains, is the most thoroughly capitalist culture in Europe.“A breath of fresh air ... This book made me think about, and rethink, seventeenth-century English history more than any I have read in decades ... a pleasure to read.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Christopher Hill\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eEllen Meiksins Wood,\u003c\/b\u003e for many years Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eDemocracy Against Capitalism \u003c\/i\u003eand, with Verso, \u003ci\u003eThe Pristine Culture of Capitalism, The Origin of Capitalism, Peasant-Citizen and Slave, Citizens to Lords,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Capital \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLiberty and Property\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301829038309,"sku":"NP9781784781033","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781784781033.jpg?v=1767741083","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-pristine-culture-of-capitalism-isbn-9781784781033","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}