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Studies In Pre-capitalist Modes Of Production

Historical Materialist Volume 97

Laura da Graca Andrea Zingarelli

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English
Haymarket Books
21 February 2017
In this collection British and Argentinian historians analyze the Asiatic, Germanic, peasant, slave, feudal, and tributary modes of production by exploring historical processes and diverse problems of Marxist theory. The studies treat an array of pre-capitalist social formations, including medieval Iceland and Norway, Byzantium, the Roman Empire, ancient Egypt, medieval León and Castile, and the Castilian later Middle Ages.

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Imprint:   Haymarket Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   97
Dimensions:   Height: 227mm,  Width: 153mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   458g
ISBN:   9781608466870
ISBN 10:   1608466876
Series:   Historical Materialism
Pages:   322
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Preface , Carlos Astarita Introduction to Studies on Pre-Capitalist Modes of Production: Debates, Controversies and Lines of Argument, Laura da Graca and Andrea Zingarelli 1. Asiatic Mode of Production: Considerations on Ancient Egypt, Andrea Zingarelli 2. The Slave Roman Economy and the Plantation System, Carlos García Mac Gaw 3. Origins of the Medieval Craftsman, Carlos Astarita 4. Passages to Feudalism in Medieval Scandinavia, Chris Wickham 5. Peasant Mode of Production and the Evolution of Clientelar Relations, Laura da Graca 6. Mode of Production, Social Action, and Historical Change: Some Questions and Issues, John Haldon 7. Simple Commodity Production and Value Theory in Late FeudalismOctavio Colombo References Index

"Laura de Graca, Ph.D. (2005), is Professor of Medieval History at the University of La Plata (Argentina). She has published several works on medieval Castile, including ""Poder politico y dinamica feudal. Procesos de diferenciacion social en distintas formas senoriales (siglos XIV-XVI)"" (Valladolid, 2009). Andrea Zingarelli, Ph.D. (2003), is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History and Egyptology at the University of La Plata. She has published several works on ancient Egyptian society and economy, including ""Trade and Market in New Kingdom Egypt"" (Oxford, 2010)."

Reviews for Studies In Pre-capitalist Modes Of Production: Historical Materialist Volume 97

A Marxist analysis must relate the parts dialectically to a totality, and cannot be served by reductive analytical categories that are defined by fixed internal characteristics, rather than by their dynamic interrelations. The best contributions in this fascinating collection are alive to the way that Marx developed his dialectical approach to analysis, and in a range of detailed case studies, are able to show the fruitful potential the study of modes of production can still provide. Indeed, if Marxists can overcome subservience to positivistic analytical presumptions, and recapture Marx's own way of thinking, then we are only at the beginning of a potential transformation in our understanding of human history. -Dominic Alexander, Counterfire


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