Revolutions of Our Time. Capitalism

London England: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Hardback. First Edition. Price clipped to D/J. In this book the author presents a broad historical survey of capitalism. While the accumulation of capital has been its major task - through the ownership of capital by the business class, linked with technological progress - its nature has profoundly changed. Science and warfare have taken charge. Capitalism has lost Russia and China, and its survival in the two-thirds of the world that it now controls depends on the fact that it is based on the physical sciences. The bureaucratisation of capitalism, which gives the state such power, rests partly on the development of a vast military and scientific apparatus - a completely different basis from the capitalism of earlier centuries. John Vaizey's essay ranges from Ancient Greece to China, from medieval Europe to contemporary North America. He has illustrated his theme with examples from many different societies so that the essence of the capitalist revolution of the present century may be understood. 120 black and white illustrations, including maps and graphs. 224 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1971.