Subtitle: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation
Author: Banaji, Jairus
Year: 2011
ISBN: 9781608461431
Pages: 406
Language: English
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publisher's city: Chicago
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Theory as History
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The essays collected here straddle four decades of work in both historiography and Marxist theory, combining source-based historical work in a wide range of languages with sophisticated discussions of Marx’s notion of ‘modes of production.’ From the emergence of medieval relations of production; the origins of capitalism; the dichotomy between free and unfree labour; and essays in agrarian history that range widely from Byzantine Egypt to 19th-century colonialism. The essays demonstrate the importance of reintegrating theory with history and of bringing history back into historical materialism.