A second installment of our discussion on historical capitalism and why we teach it.
Historical Capitalism Part 2
Friedrich Engels, Condition of the Working Class in England (1844/45), https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/condition-working-class-england.pdf
Christopher Hill, Reformation to Industrial Revolution (1990)
Eric Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day (1999), Chapters 1 & 2
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital, 1848-1875 (1975)
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 (1987)
Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1990)
V.I. Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916), https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/
Karl Marx, Capital Vol. 1 (1867), Chapters 27-33, https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch26.htm
Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa (1990)
Michael Perelman, The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation (2000)
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (1944), Chapter 1
Walter Rodney, How Europe Undeveloped Africa (1973), Chapters 5 & 6
E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (1963), Chapters 7-10
Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Origin of Capitalism (1999)
