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Theory as history : essays on modes of production and exploitation /
The essays collected here straddle four decades of work in both historiography and Marxist theory, combining source-based historical work in a wide range of languages with sophisticated discussion of Marx's categories. Key themes include the distinctions that are crucial to restoring complexity...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | Historical materialism book series ;
25. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The essays collected here straddle four decades of work in both historiography and Marxist theory, combining source-based historical work in a wide range of languages with sophisticated discussion of Marx's categories. Key themes include the distinctions that are crucial to restoring complexity to the Marxist notion of a 'mode of production'; the emergence of medieval relations of production; the origins of capitalism; the dichotomy between free and unfree labour; and essays in agrarian history that range widely from Byzantine Egypt to 19th-century colonialism. The essays demonstrate the impor. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 406 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004183728 9004183728 9789004183681 900418368X |
| ISSN: | 1570-1522 ; |