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Overview"This is a collection of essays by 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 19th 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 postmodernists and empiricists, provides a new research agenda for an integrated study of capitalism and its critics." Full Product DetailsAuthor: M. Bevir , F. TrentmannPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.450kg ISBN: 9780333980811ISBN 10: 0333980816 Pages: 227 Publication Date: 28 October 2002 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsCritique 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 IndexReviews'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 Author InformationMARK BEVIR is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of The Logic of the History of Ideas. FRANK TRENTMANN is Senior Lecturer in History at Birkbeck College, London. He has written on consumption, citizenship, and political culture, and is editor of Paradoxes of Civil Society. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |