Critiques of Capital in Modern Britian and America: Transatlantic Exchanges 1800 to the Present Day

ISBN-13: 9781349430192 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 227 str.

M. Bevir;F. Trentmann

Opis

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.

Recenzje

' Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America demonstrates the vitality of the new transnational impulse in modern history and political science. In shifting the focus from Britain to political and intellectual exchanges between Britain and the United States, its essays illuminate afresh the struggles over contract, trust, property, consumer rights, and global crisis that have defined the modern debate over capitalism.' - Daniel Rodgers, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Princeton University

Spis treści

Critique within Capitalism: Historiographical Problems, Theoretical Perspectives; M.Bevir & F.Trentmann Land Reform and Political Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States; J.Bronstein Freedom of Contract, the Market, and Imperial Law-Making; S.D.Otter British Socialism and American Romanticism; M.Bevir Britain, Europe, and the Critique of Capitalism in American Reform, 1880-1920; A.R.Schäfer Getting Your Money's Worth: American Sources of the Re-Making of the Consumer Interest in Britain, 1930s-1960s; C.Beauchamp Trust and Self-Determination: Anglo-American Ethics of Empire and International Government; K.Grant Cosmopolitanism, Rawls and the English School; S.Caney New Labour and 'Third Way' Political Economy: Paving the European Road to Washington?; C.Hay Index

O autorze

CHRISTOPHER BEAUCHAMP Doctoral Student in History, University of Cambridge JAMIE BRONSTEIN Associate Professor of History, New Mexico State University SIMON CANEY Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of Newcastle SANDRA DEN OTTER Assistant Professor of History, Queen's University KEVIN GRANT Assistant Professor, Department of History, Hamilton College COLIN HAY Professor of Political Analysis, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham AXEL R. SCHÄFER Lecturer in US History, Keele University