Ningún otro fenómeno ha moldeado la historia humana de manera tan decisiva como el capitalismo. Determina cómo vivimos y trabajamos, cómo pensamos sobre nosotros mismos y sobre los demás o cómo organizamos nuestra...
Nos educaron en una visión de la historia que presentaba el auge de la civilización industrial como una de las cimas del progreso humano; el algodón, la industria más importante del mundo hasta 1900, tenía un papel domin...
Nos educaron en una visión de la historia que presentaba el auge de la civilización industrial como una de las cimas del progreso humano; el algodón, la industria más importante del mundo hasta 1900, tenía un papel domin...
In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this movement...
The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, huge industrial working class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and...
For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the world's most important manufacturing industry. It remains a vast business - if all the cotton bales produced in 2013 had been stacked on top of each other they would have made a somewhat unstable...
This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion themselves not simply as economic leaders but as cultural innovators and arbiters? It also explains...
Tracing the shifting fortunes and changing character of New York City's economic elite over half a century, Sven Beckert brings to light a neglected--and critical--chapter in the social history of the U.S.: the rise of an American bourgeoisie. The...