Acknowledgments Introduction Kaveh Yazdani, Dilip Menon Part I: Major Debates and Controversies 1. Silver, Globalization, and Capitalism Dennis O. Flynn 2. New World Slavery in the Capitalist World-Economy Leonardo Marques 3. Russian Capitalism: Exceptionalism vs Global Labour Intensive Path, 1700-1914 Alessandro Stanziani 4. The Cambridge History of Capitalism: India David Washbrook 5. Mysore's Pre-Colonial Potentialities of Capitalist Development and Industrialization Kaveh Yazdani 6. Capitalism's Missing Link: What Happened to Southeast Asia? Eric Tagliacozzo 7. The Birth of Capitalism in Global Perspective Henry Heller Part II: Case Studies in the Histories of Capitalisms 8. One-Off Capitalism in Song China, 960-1279 AD Kent Deng 9. The First Capitalist Nation: The Development of Capitalism in England Joseph Inikori 10. The Thin Line between Economic Dynamism and Social Stability: Regulation and Deregulation in Japan (twelfth to the nineteenth C.) Masaki Nakabayashi 11. The View from Early Modern China: Capitalism and the Jingdezhen Ceramics Industry Anne Gerritsen 12. Artisans, Guilds, and Capitalist Development in Cairo, 1600-1800 Nelly Hanna 13. Iranian Capitalism: Exceptionalism and Delayed Development Rudi Matthee Notes on Editors and Contributors Index

A global history of capitalisms which eschews a singular narrative of origins in a particular place and time Moves away from teleologies of the inevitability of capitalism; of the 'great divergence' etc. and suggests a much more conjunctural history Moves away from national perspectives to emphasize the interconnected developments--intellectual and material--across the globe One of the few volumes that takes on a longer time span (from the tenth century CE) and a wider geography from SE Asia to Latin America.

Dr Kaveh Yazdani teaches economic history at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His scholarly interests include the 'Great Divergence' debate and the history of South and West Asia between the 17th and 20th centuries. He is the author of India, Modernity and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (2017). Professor Dilip M. Menon is the Mellon Chair of Indian Studies and the Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa at the University of Witwatersrand. He is the author of Caste, Nationalism and Communism in South India: Malabar, 1900-1948 (1994).

A global history of capitalisms which eschews a singular narrative of origins in a particular place and time Moves away from teleologies of the inevitability of capitalism; of the 'great divergence' etc. and suggests a much more conjunctural history Moves away from national perspectives to emphasize the interconnected developments--intellectual and material--across the globe One of the few volumes that takes on a longer time span (from the tenth century CE) and a wider geography from SE Asia to Latin America.