Empires that bleed -- Capitalism, slavery on imperial hinterlands -- Between war and peace -- The wealth of empires … responded to the pressures of rival states and merchant capitalism in the eighteenth cantury. As empires adapted, the ties …

"James P. Woodard's history of capitalism in Brazil, today the world's fifth most populous country, is at once … magisterial, intimate, and penetrating enough to serve as a history of modern Brazil itself. It tells how a modernizing consumer … Brazil's most important trading partner and the tastemaker of its better-heeled citizens." …

This volume broadens the scope of 'comparative capitalism' within the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) tradition. It … endorses the employment of multiple perspectives, including critical political economy, institutionalist systems of capitalism … the French state and a range of non-European cases including Iran, Brazil and Egypt. …