{"product_id":"9780349104805","title":"The Age of Capital : 1848-1875","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Hobsbawm, Eric, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 01\/01\/1988,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 416 pages, Section: 16, B\u0026amp;W,\u003cbr\u003e Series: 20th Century Architects, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Abacus,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Little, Brown Book Group,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: General \u0026amp; world history, Economic history\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780349104805\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eThe first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: 'capitalism'. The global triumph of capitalism is the major theme of history in the decades after 1848.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was the triumph of a society which believed that economic growth rests on competitive private enterprise, on success in buying everything in the cheapest market (including labour) and selling it in the dearest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn economy so based, and therefore nestling naturally on the sound foundations of a bourgoisie composed of those whom energy, merit and intelligence had raised to their position and kept there, would - it was believed - not only create a world of suitably distributed material plenty but of ever-growing enlightenment, reason and human opportunity, an advance of the sciences and the arts, in brief a world of continuous and accelerating material and moral progress.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37396237451417,"sku":"9780349104805","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780349104805.jpg?v=1607103514","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780349104805","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}