The Anxious Triumph
a global history of capitalism, 1860-1914
$27.85
- Paperback
800 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2021
Summary
The Anxious Triumph: Capitalism’s Global Ascent
The acclaimed magnum opus of one of Britain’s most wide-ranging historians. Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since ancient times, but the globalization and dominance of capitalism as a system began in the 1860s, when states all over the world developed their modern political frameworks- the unifications of Italy and Germany, the establishment of a republic in France, the elimination of slavery in the American south, the M…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141986555 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141986557 |
| Author: | Donald Sassoon |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 800 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 520g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 38mm |
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Critics Review
Sassoon offers us a sprawling map, studded with fascinating details. … It is quirkily brilliant - Adam Tooze - Guardian
A brilliant writer with a polymathic range. With The Anxious Triumph, he has produced a magnum opus, an accessible and genuinely global history of the transformative but unstable capitalist phenomenon. … This is a book for today and tomorrow. – Harold James * Financial Times *It is hugely erudite: everyone can learn from it. – Paul Collier * New Statesman *Sassoon offers us a sprawling map, studded with fascinating details. … It is quirkily brilliant – Adam Tooze * Guardian *He is no apologist. His comprehensive account of the origins of modern capitalism make clear the human cost of a system of institutionalised greed – Iain Macwhirter * Herald *
About The Author
Donald Sassoon
Donald Sassoon is Emeritus Professor of Comparative European History at Queen Mary, University of London. His previous books include One Hundred Years of Socialism (1996), Mona Lisa (2001) and The Culture of the Europeans (2006), all widely translated. He gives lectures at universities and conferences all over the world.
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