{"title":"Ellen Meiksins Wood","description":"Ellen Meiksins Wood,  for many years Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, is the author of many books, including Democracy Against Capitalism and, with Verso, The Pristine Culture of Capitalism, The Origin of Capitalism, Peasant-Citizen and Slave, Citizens to Lords,  Empire of Capital and Liberty and Property.","products":[{"product_id":"liberty-and-property-a-social-history-of-western-political-thought-from-the-renaissance-to-enlightenment-paperback","title":"Liberty and Property: A Social History of Western Political Thought from the Renaissance to Enlightenment - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment have all been attributed to the \"early modern\" period. Nearly everything about its history remains controversial, but one thing is certain: it left a rich and provocative legacy of political ideas unmatched in Western history. The concepts of liberty, equality, property, human rights and revolution born in those turbulent centuries continue to shape, and to limit, political discourse today. Assessing the work and background of figures such as Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin, Spinoza, the Levellers, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, Ellen Wood vividly explores the ideas of the canonical thinkers, not as philosophical abstractions but as passionately engaged responses to the social conflicts of their day.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367556022495,"sku":"9781844677528","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZQmzMWbk1u9781844677528.webp?v=1789109807"},{"product_id":"peasant-citizen-and-slave-the-foundations-of-athenian-democracy-paperback","title":"Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically and politically independent, accounts for much that is remarkable in Athenian political institutions and culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From a survey of historical writings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the focus of which distorted later debates, Wood goes on to take issue with influential arguments, such as those of G.E.M. de Ste Croix, about the importance of slavery in agricultural production. The social, political and cultural influence of the peasant-citizen is explored in a way which questions some of the most cherished conventions of Marxist and non-Marxist historiography.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368263221471,"sku":"9781784781026","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/sJXq_n-ewM9781784781026.webp?v=1789125137"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/ellen-meiksins-wood.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}