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Historical Materialism and Agrarian History
Author(s) -
Bernstein Henry
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of agrarian change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.63
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1471-0366
pISSN - 1471-0358
DOI - 10.1111/joac.12020
Subject(s) - capitalism , agrarian society , capital (architecture) , production (economics) , historical materialism , materialism , estate , economics , commodity , chart , neoclassical economics , sociology , economic history , economy , history , agriculture , market economy , political science , law , philosophy , ancient history , epistemology , finance , archaeology , microeconomics , politics , marxist philosophy , statistics , mathematics
Theory as History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation , by Jairus Banaji . Leiden and Boston : Brill , 2010 . Historical Materialism Book Series Volume 25 . Pp. xix+406. €101 (hb). ISBN 978‐90‐04‐18368‐1 The collection provides an opportunity to assess Jairus Banaji's original and provocative contributions over more than three decades. This review tries to chart a path across the range of the essays as a whole, marked by three themes and their connections and possible disconnections: what constitutes modes of production; modes of production before capitalism and their histories; and characterizing and periodizing capitalism. Banaji's emphatic arguments for long histories/trajectories of commodity production, exchange and accumulation across different times and places, especially in estate agriculture and the circuits of merchant capital, traverse these three themes.