The conquest of the Americas inaugurated the slow accumulation of resources and the imperceptible structural transformations that culminated in the Industrial Revolution. From that moment on,... This description may be from another edition of this product.
"This clear accessible book does just what its title promises... Writing in a pleasant and nonconfrontational style, Beaud does so using a chronological order without reverting to jargon, and he describes the intellectual as well as the material history of capitalist development ... The book covers the most important elements of the subject and does a good job of pointing readers to additional sources... This reviewer knows of no comparable current work." -- M. PERELMAN, CHOICE, American Library Association
Marx & the maddened minion
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