TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sassoon,Donald
TI  - The anxious Triumph: a global history of capitalism, 1860-1914 
SN  - 9780241315163
AV  - HB501 .S27 2019
U1  - 330.122 SAS.A 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - UK
PB  - Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, Limited
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The condition of the world -- Becoming modern -- Involving the demos -- Facing the world
N2  - Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since ancient times, but the globalization and dominance of capitalism as a system began in the 1860s when, in different forms and supported by different political forces, states all over the world developed their modern political frameworks: the unifications of Italy and Germany, the establishment of a republic in France, the elimination of slavery in the American south, the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the emancipation of the serfs in Tsarist Russia. This book magnificently explores how, after the upheavals of industrialisation, a truly global capitalism followed. For the first time in the history of humanity, there was a social system able to provide a high level of consumption for the majority of those who lived within its bounds. Today, capitalism dominates the world. --
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