A recent book by Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik A Theory of Imperialism (2017) identifies ‘increasing supply price', ‘the value of money' and ‘income deflation' as the three central features of imperialism. This book contains a commentary from David Harvey which is extremely critical of...

It is widely accepted that in the last two centuries, liberalism has delivered unprecedented levels of economic prosperity and freedoms to large parts of the world. But liberal history has a darker side: its failure to deliver the promise of liberty and equality to all increasingly appears not...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Portuguese Town in Río de la Plata -- 2. Departing without Leaving: Luso-Brazilians under the Viceroyalty -- 3. Transimperial Cooperation: Commerce and War in the South Atlantic -- 4. The Making of...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One: Autumn of Proyectismo -- 1. Continuity and Crisis, 1789-1797 -- 2. War and the Colonies: Aranda and Godoy -- 3. The Late Proyectistas -- Part Two: Fissioning of New Spain -- 4. Reorganizing New Spain's External Trade: The Effects of Comercio Libre,...

Intro -- Beyond Empires: Global, Self-Organizing, Cross-Imperial Networks, 1500-1800 -- Copyright -- Contents -- General Editor's Foreword -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1: The Evolution of Norms in Trade and Financial Networks in the First Global Age:...