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<p>***Winner, International Studies Association International Political Sociology Best Book Prize 2017***<br> <br> ***Winner, British International Studies Association International Political Economy Working Group Book Prize 2016***</p> <p>Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a profess which is fundamentally European--a system that was born in the mills and factories of English and under the guillotines of the French Revolution. This groundbreaking book tells a very difference story.</p> <p>How the West Came to Rule offers a unique interdisciplinary and international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues that, contrary to dominant wisdom, capitalism's origins should not be understood as a development confined to the geographically and culturally sealed borders of Europe, but the outcome of a wider array of global processes in which non-European societies played a decisive role.</p> <p>Here is a provocative, incisive explanation of how capitalism emerged in England and Europe through a dialectical intersocietal and geopolitical process. The authors' aim to undermine a Eurocentric bias that has been prominent in the debate about capitalisms rise to supremacy, and their case is remarkably convincing. They provide a fundamental rethinking. Anievas and Nisancioglu contend that often cited assumptions are neither theoretically nor empirically tenable and deny the agency of non-Western societies to the emergence of capitalism. Topics covered include:</p> <p>*The Problem of Eurocentrism<br> <br> *The Problem of Historical Specificity<br> <br> *The Brenner Thesis: Explanation and Critique<br> <br> *The Geopolitical in the Making of Capitalism<br> <br> *The Political Marxist Conception of Capitalism<br> <br> *Rethinking the Origins of Capitalism<br> <br> *And much more!</p> <p>Through an outline of the uneven histories of Mongolian expansion, New World discoveries, Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry, the development of the coloni