Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property keyword-continental Going beyond the familiar prisms

Going beyond the familiar prisms of race relations and reductionist class analysis they illuminate the radicalizing dynamic of British capitalism in the postwar period

A crucial text for students of political theory

not only by Marxists but also by an entire school of liberal development economists

Essays include a fascinating study of women traders in medieval England

Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property keyword-continental Going beyond the familiar prismsIn popular retellings of American history, capitalism generally doesnt feature much as part of the founding or development of the nation. Instead, it is alluded to in figurative terms as opportunity, entrepreneurial vigor, material abundance, and the seven league boots of manifest destiny. ? In this collection of essays, Steve Fraser, the preeminent historian of American capitalism, sets the record straight, rewriting the arc of the American saga with