Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction: problems and methods
1. The Decline of feudalism
2. Experiments in capitalism: Italy, Germany, France
3. English capitalism
4. Bourgeois revolution
5. Political capitalism
6. The Industrial Revolution: Marxist perspectives
7. Capitalism and world history
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Henry Heller is a Professor of History at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is the author of The Capitalist University (Pluto, 2016), The Birth of Capitalism: A 21st Century Perspective (Pluto, 2011) The Cold War and the New Imperialism: A Global History, 1945-2005 (Monthly Review Press, 2006) and The Bourgeois Revolution in France (Berghahn, 2006).

Reviews

'Sets a new standard in the study of the transition from feudalism to capitalism. A must for anybody interested in the transition debates'
*Michael Perelman, author of The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation*

'A comprehensive, critical but balanced account from a classical Marxist perspective of the entire debate and its various controversies'
*Neil Davidson*

'While many fantasise about an 'Empire' unified on a planetarylevel, this is a brilliant analysis of the role of national states inthe forming and functioning of capitalism'
*Domenico Losurdo, University of Urbino, author of Liberalism: A Counter-History*