Modern Capitalist Culture

ISBN-13: 9781598741575 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 700 str.

Leslie A. White

Opis

This lost classic by famous anthropological theorist Leslie A. White, published now for the first time, represents twenty-five years of his scholarship on the anthropology of modern capitalism. Drawing out his now classic formulations of social organization, cultural evolution, and the relationship between technology, ecology, and culture, this major theoretical work traces a vast expanse of history from the earliest forms of capitalism to the detailed inner workings of contemporary democratic institutions. A substantial foreword by Burton J. Brown, Benjamin Urish, and Robert Carneiro both situates this posthumous work within the history of anthropological theory and shows its importance to contemporary debates within the discipline.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Nature of Capitalist-Democratic Culture; Chapter 3 Early Development Of Capitalist Culture: Tenth To Sixteenth Centuries; Chapter 4 Development of Capitalist-Democratic Culture: Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries; Chapter 5 The Fuel Revolution; Chapter 6 Socio-Cultural Consequences of the Fuel Revolution; Chapter 7 The United States: From Colonial Times To World War I; Chapter 8 Jungle Capitalism; Chapter 9 The State-Church in Capitalist-Democratic Society; Chapter 10 Class Structure and Class Relations; Chapter 11 Class Structure in The United States: Capital and Labor; Chapter 12 The Social Organization of Tenure and Control of Wealth; Chapter 13 Big Business And Government; Chapter 14 Small Business; Chapter 15 The Socialization of Wealth; Chapter 16 Distribution of Wealth and Income; Chapter 17 From Laissez-Faire to Welfare, Part I; Chapter 18 From Laissez-Faire to Welfare, Part II; Chapter 19 Subsidies: Government Interference in the Free Enterprise System; Chapter 20 Mutual Funds; Chapter 21 Pension Plans: Socialization of Wealth, Individual Security, and Concentration of Economic Power;

O autorze

Leslie A. White, Burton J. Brown, Benjamin Urish, Robert L. Carneiro, Benjamin Urish