How the West Came to Rule

Alexander Anievas is Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Capital, the State, and War 1914-1945 (University of Michigan Press, 2014), How the West Came to Rule (Pluto, 2015) and editor of Marxism and World Politics: Contesting Global Capitalism (Routledge, 2010).Kerem Nişancıoğlu is a Lecturer in International Relations at SOAS, University of London. He is the co-author of How the West Came to Rule (Pluto, 2015), and co-editor of Decolonising the University (Pluto, 2018). He also blogs at The Disorder of Things.

'A fundamental rethinking of the origins of capitalism and the emergence of Western domination by the interactive relations with the non-European world. Highly Recommended.'

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Transition Debate: Theories and Critique2. Rethinking the Origins of Capitalism: The Theory of Uneven and Combined Development3. The Long Thirteenth Century: Structural Crisis, Conjunctural Catastrophe4. The Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry over the Long Sixteenth Century5. The Atlantic Sources of European Capitalism, Territorial Sovereignty and the Modern Self6. The ‘Classical’ Bourgeois Revolutions in the History of Uneven and Combined Development7. Combined Encounters: Dutch Colonisation in South-East Asia and the Contradictions of ‘Free Labour’8. Origins of the Great Divergence over the Longue Durée: Rethinking the ‘Rise of the West’ConclusionNotesIndex