Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought
- The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- 1 Introduction
- 2 State and Individual in Political Thought
- 3 Remaking Theology: Orthodoxies and Their Critics
- 4 Philosophy in the Wake of Hegel*
- 5 The Origins of the Social Sciences
- 6 Historical Methods in Europe and America
- 7 Capitalism and Its Critics
- 8 Individuality, the Self and Concepts of Mind
- 9 Social Darwinism
- 10 Feminist Thought
- 11 Race and Empire in the Nineteenth Century
- 12 Patterns of Literary Transformation
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
7 - Capitalism and Its Critics
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought
- The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- 1 Introduction
- 2 State and Individual in Political Thought
- 3 Remaking Theology: Orthodoxies and Their Critics
- 4 Philosophy in the Wake of Hegel*
- 5 The Origins of the Social Sciences
- 6 Historical Methods in Europe and America
- 7 Capitalism and Its Critics
- 8 Individuality, the Self and Concepts of Mind
- 9 Social Darwinism
- 10 Feminist Thought
- 11 Race and Empire in the Nineteenth Century
- 12 Patterns of Literary Transformation
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
Summary
It could be said that, during the nineteenth century, capitalism took over the world. Developments in trade, finance, manufacturing, farming, energy sources and population growth in Western Europe converged to create a new kind of economy whose rhythms were no longer primarily dictated by pestilence, the seasons, climatic cycles or wars of religion and of succession.
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