Capitalist outcomes, ideal types, historical realities

Davidson, N. (2019) Capitalist outcomes, ideal types, historical realities. Historical Materialism, 27(3), pp. 210-276. (doi: 10.1163/1569206X-00001833)

Abstract

This article is a response to some of the criticisms made of How Revolutionary were the Bourgeois Revolutions? by Gerstenberger, Post and Riley. In particular, it focuses on two issues of definition – that of capitalism and the capitalist nation-state – which arise from the book’s ‘consequentialist’ claim that bourgeois revolutions are defined by a particular outcome: the establishment of nation-states dedicated to the accumulation of capital.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Davidson, Mr Neil
• Authors: Davidson, N.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences
• Journal Name: Historical Materialism
• Publisher: Brill
• ISSN: 1465-4466
• ISSN (Online): 1569-206X
• Published Online: 24 October 2019
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2019 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden
• First Published: First published in Historical Materialism 27(30):210-276
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher