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How the West Came to Rule
AuthorAlexander Anievas, Kerem Nişancıoğlu
PublisherPluto Press
Publication date
June 2015
ISBN9780745336152

How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism is a 2015 nonfiction book by Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nişancıoğlu. It attempts to analyze the development of capitalism from a non-Eurocentric perspective by employing the theory of uneven and combined development. It critically engages with Political Marxism, postcolonialism, and world-systems theory.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Scholarly reception

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Economic historian Chris Grocott positively reviewed the book, saying it "challenges the received wisdom of capitalist development".[7]

Sociologist Sung Hee Ru said the book "[breaks] the trite, obsolete and slanted explanations within macrohistorical sociology about the ascendancy of the West" and "profoundly challenges accounts of Europe’s rise as self-generating".[8]

Tony McKenna praised the book's account of the Ottoman Empire and the encomienda system, but criticized it for overstating the role of plantation slavery in the development of capitalism.[9]

International relations scholar Cüneyt Doğrusözlü criticized the book for lacking a rationale for the events and societies included and excluded in its account, but said it was nevertheless "a good contribution to the research seeking to escape from the ontological singularity that lies at heart of Eurocentrism".[10]

Awards

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The book won the 2017 IPS Book Award of the International Studies Association.[11]

References

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  1. ^ Anievas, Alexander; Nişancıoğlu, Kerem (2015). How the west came to rule: the geopolitical origins of capitalism. London: Pluto Press. ISBN 978-0-7453-3521-6.
  2. ^ Ousmane, Salvador (2017-07-20). "How the West Came to Rule". Review of African Political Economy. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
  3. ^ Heller, Henry (2018-06-21). "Book Review: How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism". Review of Radical Political Economics. 50 (3): 599–601. doi:10.1177/0486613417707841. ISSN 0486-6134.
  4. ^ Gürel, Burak (2017-04-21). "Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nişancıoğlu. How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2015, xiii+386 pages". New Perspectives on Turkey. 56: 166–171. doi:10.1017/npt.2017.9. ISSN 0896-6346.
  5. ^ Dimmock, Spencer (2017-04-01). "The Eastern Origins of Capitalism?". Historical Materialism. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
  6. ^ Banaji, Jairus (2016-11-27). "Globalizing the History of Capital: Ways Forward". Historical Materialism. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
  7. ^ Grocott, Chris (2015-12-16). "Review - How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism". E-International Relations. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
  8. ^ Ru, Sung Hee (2017-08-11). "Review of How the West Came to Rule". Journal of World-Systems Research. 23 (2): 758–761. doi:10.5195/jwsr.2017.673. ISSN 1076-156X.
  9. ^ McKenna, Tony (2015-10-19). "'How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism' reviewed by Tony McKenna". Marx & Philosophy Review of Books.
  10. ^ Doğrusözlü, Cüneyt (2018). "Review of How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism". Insight Turkey. 20 (1): 240–242. ISSN 1302-177X – via JSTOR.
  11. ^ "IPS Book Award". International Studies Association. Retrieved 2024-11-14.


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