Transitions: Methods, Theory, Politics: Methods, Theory, Politics

by Tom Brass

The focus of this volume is on political discourse about the pattern and desirability of economic development, and how/why historical interpretations of social phenomena connected to this systemic process alter. It is a trajectory pursued here with reference to the materialism of Marxism, via the mid-nineteenth century ideas about race, through the development decade, the 'cultural turn', debates about modes of production and their respective labour...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004520732
• ISBN13: 9789004520738
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 308 Pages