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321.07 ROS Plato's Republic : a study | 321.07 SCO Levels of argument : a comparative study of Plato's republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics | 321.07 STR Argument and the action of Plato's laws | 321.09 WOO Pristine culture of capitalism : a historical essay on old regimes and modern states | 321.3 AND Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism | 321.30944 DUB Three orders : feudal society imagined | 321.609 GRA On Kings |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. Publisher.
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