Full name: The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times

Author: Giovanni Arrighi Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Economics, Non Fiction, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781859840153 9781844673049 1859840159 1844673049

The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of "long centuries," each of which produced a new world power that secured control over an expanding world-economic space. Examining the changing fortunes of Florentine, Venetian, Genoese, Dutch, English and finally American capitalism, Arrighi concludes with an examination of the forces that have shaped and are now poised to undermine America's world dominance. A masterpiece of historical sociology, The Long Twentieth Century rivals in scope and ambition contemporary classics by Perry Anderson, Charles Tilly and Michael Mann. Similar books: The Cash Nexus by Niall Ferguson Capitalism and the Historians by F. A. Hayek The Origin of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood The Birth of Plenty by William J. Bernstein The Myth of the Robber Barons by Burton W. Folsom A Splendid Exchange by William J. Bernstein Empire of Wealth by John Steele Gordon A Farewell to Alms by Gregory Clark The Gifts of Athena by Joel Mokyr The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano Web of Debt by Ellen Hodgson Brown How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes The New Road to Serfdom by Daniel Hannan Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis The Global Minotaur by Yanis Varoufakis The Case Against the Fed by Murray N. Rothbard The Lords of Creation by Frederick Lewis Allen The Marshall Plan by Benn Steil