Property and Progress: The Historical Origins and Social Foundations of Self-Sustaining Growth (Hardcover)

~ Robert Brenner (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Constantly provocative, [a] giant of a book." - Times Literary Supplement, "If Brenner's work suggests new beginnings, its primary focus is on some of the most venerable debates in British historiography." - Reviews in American History, "Brenner has made more discoveries of importance about the period than any of his contemporaries." - London Review of Books"

Product Description

Key texts on the origins of capitalism brought together for the first time.

In writing these celebrated essays Robert Brenner had an electric impact on the debate regarding the transition from feudalism to capitalism. His epochal 1976 essay in Past and Present launched what became known as the "Brenner debate." His 2007 lecture at the British Academy was an elegant synthesis of his views and has generated a new discussion. The magnitude of Brenner's contribution to the world of ideas cannot be underestimated. This series of brilliant essays represent what is probably the most powerful single contribution from a materialist viewpoint to historical thought of the past half century.

Property and Progress brings these texts together in a single volume for the first time. Intellectually audacious and academically rigorous, they vary in range, offering novel perspectives on the nature of pre-capitalist and capitalist societies, socio-economic evolution in the medieval and early modern period through to the industrial revolution and a provocative comparison between England and the Yangtze Delta in China.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Verso (March 2, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1844673189
• ISBN-13: 978-1844673186
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,302,871 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)