The distinction between 'capitalism from above' and 'capitalism from below' is important in the analysis of the agrarian question in poor countries. The 'Prussian path' and the 'American path' are here examined, against existing historical scholarship. Their unfolding, from their earliest roots to the point of final 'agrarian transition' in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is considered. The dialectic between social relations and productive forces, mediated as it was by the state, is treated and the implications for capitalist industrialisation scrutinised.
- ISBN10 0333666577
- ISBN13 9780333666579
- Publish Date 8 November 1996 (first published 1 January 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 February 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 490
- Language English