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Theory As History

Essays On Modes Of Production And Exploitation: Historical Materialism, Volume 25

Jarius Banaji

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English
Haymarket Books
08 December 2011
Winner of the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize

The essays collected herein deal with the Marxist notion of a ""mode of production,"" the emergence of medieval relations of production, the origins of capitalism, the dichotomy between free and unfree labor, and essays in agrarian history. They demonstrate the importance of reintegrating theory with history and of bringing history back into historical materialism.
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Imprint:   Haymarket Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   First Trade Paper Edition
Volume:   No. 25
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 30mm
Weight:   660g
ISBN:   9781608461431
ISBN 10:   1608461432
Series:   Historical Materialism
Pages:   412
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Further / Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jairus Banaji spent most of his academic life at Oxford. He has been a Research Associate in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, for the past several years. He is the author of Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2007).

Reviews for Theory As History: Essays On Modes Of Production And Exploitation: Historical Materialism, Volume 25

The great merit of this volume is that it establishes an approach for [the debates about the nature and origin of capitalism] that is deeply theoretical, but at the same time refreshingly unhampered by the kind of doctrinaire attachment to a perceived (and often misread) orthodoxy that plagued so much of historical materialism for the past century. It is scholarly, without being purely academic ... Banaji's book deserves to be read and debated as one of the starting points for a new wave of Marxist historiography, still in the process of liberating itself from the ghost of its formalist past. <br>--Pepijn Brandon, International Socialism <br> Banaji's seemingly idiosyncratic but in fact highly sophisticated and original approach to historical analysis provides not only a welcome stimulus and a challenge for scholars today, but also will give them plenty to think about for many years to come <br>--Marcel van der Linden, research director of the International Institute of Socialh


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