The Ellen Meiksins Wood reader / edited by Larry Patriquin.

• Superior document: Historical materialism book series, v. 40
• Author: Wood, Ellen Meiksins.
• TeilnehmendeR: Patriquin, Larry.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; 40.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (349 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Ellen Meiksins Wood is a leading contemporary political theorist who has elaborated an innovative approach to the history of political thought, the ‘social history of political theory’. She has been described as the founder, together with the historian Robert Brenner, of ‘Political Marxism’, a distinct version of historical materialism which has inspired a research program that spans a number of academic disciplines. Organized thematically, this Reader brings together selections from Wood’s groundbreaking scholarship, published over three decades, providing an overview of her original interpretations of capitalism, precapitalist societies, the state, political theory, democracy, citizenship, liberalism, civil society, the Enlightenment, globalization, imperialism, and socialism.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: The ‘Method’ of Ellen Meiksins Wood / Larry Patriquin -- 1. Capitalism / Larry Patriquin -- 2. Precapitalist Societies / Larry Patriquin -- 3. The State in Historical Perspective / Larry Patriquin -- 4. Social and Political Thought / Larry Patriquin -- 5. D emocracy, Citizenship, Liberalism, and Civil Society / Larry Patriquin -- 6. The Enlightenment, Postmodernism, and the Post-‘New Left’ / Larry Patriquin -- 7. Globalisation and Imperialism / Larry Patriquin -- 8. Socialism / Larry Patriquin -- Bibliography of Works by Ellen Meiksins Wood, 1970–2012 -- References -- Index.