Xavier Lafrance
 is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Québec in Montréal, Canada

Charles Post
 is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York, USA

Introduction (Xavier Lafrance and Charles Post)

Chapter 1: Expropriation and the Political Origins of the Transition to Agrarian Capitalism in England (Spencer Dimmock)

Chapter 2: England/industry (Michael Zmolek)

Chapter 3: Traditional Farming in France until the Transition to Capitalism of the 1960s under de Gaulle (Stephen Miller)

Chapter 4: From Extra-Economic Class Relations to the Rise of Industrial Capitalism in Post-Revolutionary France (Xavier Lafrance)

Chapter 5: Beyond the Brenner Thesis: The Origins of Capitalism in Catalonia (Javier Moreno Zacarés)

Chapter 6: The American Road to Capitalism (Charles Post)

Chapter 7: The Peasantry and Tenancy-Market Dependence: Rural Capitalism in Meiji-Era Japan (Mark Cohen)

Chapter 8: 'The 100 Years of "Transition": The (Geo)politics of Capitalism and Jacobinism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey' (Eren Duzgun)

Chapter 10: Rural Property Relations and the Regional Dynamics of the Brazilian Transition to Capitalism (Chris Carlson)

Chapter 11: Contingency and the Origins of the Taiwan Miracle (Christopher Isett)

Chapter 12: Rethinking the 'Social' in the transition to capitalism: Reading Federici and Brenner together (Nicole Leach)