Synopses & Reviews
This book is an innovative collection of essays by a new generation of British and American historians and political theorists. The volume explores how critical traditions and beliefs have helped to shape capitalism. Chapters follow diverse critiques in Britain and America and explore their Atlantic and imperial exchanges. The volume includes chapters on questions of law and property in the Victorian empire; traditions of land reform in 19th century America and Britain; the influence of American romanticism on British socialism; the role of Britain in American progressivism; American and British consumer protection; the evolution of trusteeship and ideas of cosmopolitan democracy; the 'third way' and narratives of globalization.
Review
“This collection is an excellent demonstration of the vitality of the new transatlantic history of social thought and social politics.”Daniel Rodgers, Princeton University
Synopsis
This book is an innovative collection of essays by a new generation of British and American historians and political theorists. The volume explores how critical traditions and beliefs have helped to shape capitalism. Chapters follow diverse critiques in Britain and America and explore their Atlantic and imperial exchanges. The volume includes chapters on questions of law and property in the Victorian empire; traditions of land reform in 19th century America and Britain; the influence of American romanticism on British socialism; the role of Britain in American progressivism; American and British consumer protection; the evolution of trusteeship and ideas of cosmopolitan democracy; the 'third way' and narratives of globalization.
About the Author
Mark Bevir is in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Frank Trentmann is at the School of History, Birkbeck College.
Table of Contents
Critique within Capitalism: Historiographical Problems, Theoretical Perspectives--M. Bevir & F. Trentmann * Land Reform and Political Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States--J. Bronstein * Freedom of Contract, the Market, and Imperial LawMaking--S.D. Otter * British Socialism and American Romanticism--M. Bevir * Britain, Europe, and the Critique of Capitalism in American Reform, 1880-1920--A.R. Schäfer * Getting Your Money's Worth: American Sources of the Re-Making of the Consumer Interest in Britain, 1930s-1960s--C. Beauchamp * Trust and Self-Determination: Anglo-American Ethics of Empire and International Government--K. Grant * Cosmopolitanism, Rawls and the English School--S. Caney * New Labour and 'Third Way' Political Economy: Paving the European Road to Washington?--C. Hay Critique within Capitalism: Historiographical Problems, Theoretical Perspectives--M. Bevir & F. Trentmann * Land Reform and Political Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States--J. Bronstein * Freedom of Contract, the Market, and Imperial LawMaking--S.D. Otter * British Socialism and American Romanticism--M. Bevir * Britain, Europe, and the Critique of Capitalism in American Reform, 1880-1920--A.R. Schäfer * Getting Your Money's Worth: American Sources of the Re-Making of the Consumer Interest in Britain, 1930s-1960s--C. Beauchamp * Trust and Self-Determination: Anglo-American Ethics of Empire and International Government--K. Grant * Cosmopolitanism, Rawls and the English School--S. Caney * New Labour and 'Third Way' Political Economy: Paving the European Road to Washington?--C. Hay