A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism

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), Theory as History (Haymarket Books, 2011) — for which he won the prestigious Isaac and Tamara Deutsche Memorial Prize — and numerous other volumes and articles.

Chapter One: Reinstating Commercial Capitalism

Chapter Two: The Infrastructure of Commercial Capitalism

Chapter Three: The Competition of Capitals: Struggles for Commercial Dominance from the 12th to 18th Centuries

Chapter Four: British Mercantile Capitalism and the Cosmopolitanism of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter Five: Commercial Practices : Putting-Out, or the Capitalist Domestic Industries

Chapter Six: The Circulation of Commercial Capitals: Competition, Velocity, Verticality

Appendix: Islam and Capitalism

Notes

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