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Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America

Transatlantic Exchanges 1800 to the Present Day

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Editors:
  1. Mark Bevir

    1. Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA

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  2. Frank Trentmann

    1. School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, London, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Critique within Capitalism: Historiographical Problems, Theoretical Perspectives

    • Mark Bevir, Frank Trentmann
    Pages 1-25

  3. Land Reform and Political Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States

    • Jamie L. Bronstein
    Pages 26-48

  4. Freedom of Contract, the Market and Imperial Law-making

    • Sandra den Otter
    Pages 49-72

  5. British Socialism and American Romanticism

    • Mark Bevir
    Pages 73-97

  6. Britain, Europe and the Critique of Capitalism in American Reform, 1880–1920

    • Axel R. Schäfer
    Pages 98-126

  7. Getting Your Money’s Worth: American Models for the Remaking of the Consumer Interest in Britain, 1930s–1960s

    • Christopher Beauchamp
    Pages 127-150

  8. Trust and Self-determination: Anglo-American Ethics of Empire and International Government

    • Kevin Grant
    Pages 151-173

  9. Cosmopolitanism, Rawls and the English School

    • Simon Caney
    Pages 174-194

  10. New Labour and ‘Third Way’ Political Economy: Paving the European Road to Washington?

    • Colin Hay
    Pages 195-219

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 221-227
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About this book

This book is an innovative collection of essays by a new generation of British and American historians and political theorists. Moving beyond a conventional action/reaction view of capitalism and its critics, the volume explores how critical traditions and beliefs have helped to shape capitalism. Chapters follow diverse critiques in Britain and America and explore their Atlantic and imperial exchanges. The volume includes chapters on questions of law and property in the Victorian empire; traditions of land reform in nineteenth century America and Britain; the influence of American romanticism on British socialism; the role of Britain in American progressivism; American and British consumer protection; the evolution of trusteeship and ideas of cosmopolitan democracy; the 'third way' and narratives of globalization. The editors' introduction offers a critical historiographical survey and, by stepping beyond the dogmatic opposition between post-modernists and empiricists, provides a new research agenda for an integrated study of capitalism and its critics.

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' Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America demonstrates the vitality of the new transnational impulse in modern history and political science. In shifting the focus from Britain to political and intellectual exchanges between Britain and the United States, its essays illuminate afresh the struggles over contract, trust, property, consumer rights, and global crisis that have defined the modern debate over capitalism.' - Daniel Rodgers, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Princeton University

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Mark Bevir

  • School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, London, UK

    Frank Trentmann

About the editors

CHRISTOPHER BEAUCHAMP Doctoral Student in History, University of Cambridge JAMIE BRONSTEIN Associate Professor of History, New Mexico State University SIMON CANEY Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of Newcastle SANDRA DEN OTTER Assistant Professor of History, Queen's University KEVIN GRANT Assistant Professor, Department of History, Hamilton College COLIN HAY Professor of Political Analysis, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham AXEL R. SCHÄFER Lecturer in US History, Keele University

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America

  • Book Subtitle: Transatlantic Exchanges 1800 to the Present Day

  • Editors: Mark Bevir, Frank Trentmann

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230505728

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-98081-1Published: 28 October 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43019-2Published: 01 January 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50572-8Published: 28 October 2002

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 227

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Economic History, History of the Americas, US History

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