Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism

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

1. Introduction.- 2. Expropriation and the Political Origins of Agrarian Capitalism in England.- 3. 'Compelled to sell all': Proletarianization, Agrarian Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution.- 4. Peasant Farming in Eighteenth-and-Nineteenth-Century France and the Transition to Capitalism under Charles de Gaulle.- 5. The Transition to Industrial Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century France.- 6. The Transition to Capitalism in Catalonia.- 7. The American Road to Capitalism.- 8. Colonialism, Racism, and the Transition to Capitalism in Canada.- 9. The Peasantry and Tenancy-Market Dependence: Rural Capitalism in Meiji-Era Japan.- 10.Rural Property Relations and the Regional Dynamics of Brazilian Capitalism.- 11. The Political Economy of the Transition to Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey: Towards a New Interpretation.- 12. Uncertainty, Contingency, and Late Development in Taiwan.- 13. Rethinking the Rules of Reproduction and the Transition to Capitalism: Reading Federici and Brenner Together.- 14. Conclusion.