Episode 44: Sven Beckert, "Capitalism: A Global History" (Part 6/10)

American Writers (One Hundred Pages at a Time) by Evan Lampe

Jun 17, 202642:55Arts

In part 6 of this 10 part review of Sven Beckert's Capitalism: A Global History I read the chapters on the "reconstructions" of capital and labor in the later 19th century. It is in these reconstructions that the foundat...

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