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The Ellen Meiksins Wood Reader

Ellen Meiksins Wood

Ellen Meiksins Wood is a leading contemporary political theorist who has elaborated an innovative approach to the history of political thought, the 'social history of political theory'. She has been described as the founder, together with the historian Robert Brenner, of 'Political Marxism', a distinct version of historical materialism which has inspired a research program that spans a number of academic disciplines. Organized thematically, this Reader brings together selections from Wood's groundbreaking scholarship, published over three decades, providing an overview of her original interpretations of capitalism, precapitalist societies, the state, political theory, democracy, citizenship, liberalism, civil society, the Enlightenment, globalization, imperialism, and socialism.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publish Date: Oct 12nd, 2012
  • Pages: 352
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.50in - 6.30in - 0.90in - 1.50lb
  • EAN: 9789004230088
  • Categories: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismAnthropology - Cultural & SocialSociology - General

About the Author

Ellen Meiksins Wood is Professor Emerita in the Department of Political Science, York University. She is the author of numerous books, including Democracy against Capitalism, The Origin of Capitalism, Citizens to Lords and, most recently, Liberty and Property.

Larry Patriquin is Associate Professor of Social Welfare and Social Development, Nipissing University. He is the author of Inventing Tax Rage and Agrarian Capitalism and Poor Relief in England, 1500-1860.