Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America
Transatlantic Exchanges 1800 to the Present Day
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Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America
Transatlantic Exchanges 1800 to the Present Day
About this book
This book is an innovative collection of essays by a new generation of British and American historians and political theorists. Moving beyond a conventional action/reaction view of capitalism and its critics, the volume explores how critical traditions and beliefs have helped to shape capitalism. Chapters follow diverse critiques in Britain and America and explore their Atlantic and imperial exchanges. The volume includes chapters on questions of law and property in the Victorian empire; traditions of land reform in nineteenth century America and Britain; the influence of American romanticism on British socialism; the role of Britain in American progressivism; American and British consumer protection; the evolution of trusteeship and ideas of cosmopolitan democracy; the 'third way' and narratives of globalization. The editors' introduction offers a critical historiographical survey and, by stepping beyond the dogmatic opposition between post-modernists and empiricists, provides a new research agenda for an integrated study of capitalism and its critics.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Notes on the Contributors
- 1 Critique within Capitalism: Historiographical Problems, Theoretical Perspectives
- 2 Land Reform and Political Traditions in Nineteenth-century Britain and the United States
- 3 Freedom of Contract, the Market and Imperial Law-making
- 4 British Socialism and American Romanticism
- 5 Britain, Europe and the Critique of Capitalism in American Reform, 1880–1920
- 6 Getting Your Money's Worth: American Models for the Remaking of the Consumer Interest in Britain, 1930s–1960s
- 7 Trust and Self-determination: Anglo-American Ethics of Empire and International Government
- 8 Cosmopolitanism, Rawls and the English School
- 9 New Labour and 'Third Way' Political Economy: Paving the European Road to Washington?
- Index