Charts the emergence and development of capitalism across the world from a variety of perspectives, providing a deep understanding of how capitalism came to be the dominant economic force.

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1. Capitalism: Histories and Institutions - Robert G. Ingram
2. Origin Stories: Expressions and Presentations of Capitalism in Early British America - Peter Coclanis
3. Creativity and Capitalism in the Nineteenth-Century United States - John Majewski
4. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Birth of the Business Cycle - Mark Metzler
5. Violence and Capitalism in Early Modern European Overseas Expansion - Ralph Austen
6. Capitalism in Africa: Two Histories, 1650s-1940s - Gareth Austin
7. European Empires and the Origins of Global Capitalism - Emma Griffin
8. Capitalism in a Feudal Society? Property Rights and Economic Development in Russia under Serfdom - Tracy Dennison
9. Capitalism in South Asia: Three Transitions - Tirthankar Roy
10. Capitalism, Caste and Subaltern Aspirations in India: Bengal, c. 1500-1859 - Anirban Karak
11. Chinese Capitalism c. 1500-1850: Institutions, Dimensions, Dynamics and Limitations - Kenneth Pomeranz
12. Why the Soybean Export Failed to Trigger the Reemergence of Coercive Labour Control in Eighteenth-Century Manchuria - Horus T'an
13. Property Law at the Transition to Exponential Growth: Examples from Japan - C. Alexander Evans and J. Mark Ramseyer
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