Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942–2016)
Autore di The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
Sull'Autore
Ellen Meiksins Wood is a leading political theorist and highly influential historian. For many years Professor of Political Science a York University, Toronto, she is the author of many books, including The Pristine Culture of Capitalism, The Origin of Capitalism, Peasant-Citizen and Slave. mostra altro Citizens to Lords, Empire of 'Capital, and Liberty and Properly. mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Ellen Meiksins Wood (2012)
Opere di Ellen Meiksins Wood
Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages (2008) 116 copie
Liberty and Property: A Social History of Western Political Thought from the Renaissance to Enlightenment (2012) 100 copie
The Pristine Culture of Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States (1991) 85 copie
Opere correlate
Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment (2000) — Collaboratore — 47 copie
Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution (1998) — A cura di — 38 copie
Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstitution of American Democracy (1994) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Meiksins, Ellen (Geburtsname)
- Data di nascita
- 1942-04-12
- Data di morte
- 2016-01-14
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA (birth)
Canada - Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Ottawa, Ontario, Kanada
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
New York, New York, USA
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - Istruzione
- University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles - Attività lavorative
- Professor Emerita (York University)
political theorist
historian
intellectual
feminist - Relazioni
- Wood, Neal (husband)
Meiksins, Gregory (father) - Organizzazioni
- York University
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Royal Society of Canada (1996)
- Breve biografia
- Ellen Meiksins Wood was born in New York City one year after her parents, Gregory Meiksins, an interpreter, and Mischa Berg, a social worker, arrived in the USA as Latvin Jewish refugees from the Nazis in World War II. The family moved to the West Coast, where Ellen went to Beverly Hills High School. In 1962, she received a B.A. in Slavic languages from the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1970, a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. From 1967 to 1996, she taught political science at York University in Toronto, Canada. Prof. Wood wrote many books and articles, sometimes in collaboration with her first husband, Dr. Neal Wood. They became Canadian citizens and divided their time between Canada and England until his death in 2003. Her first important independent work, The Retreat from Class: A New 'True' Socialism (1986), received the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1988. In academic and left-wing activist circles, she became known for her "political Marxist" approach to history. Prof. Wood served on the editorial committee of the British journal The New Left Review from 1984 to 1993. From 1997 to 2000, she was a co-editor of the Monthly Review, the socialist magazine based in New York City. In 1996, after her retirement, she was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada. In 2014, she remarried to Ed Broadbent, former leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, with whom she lived in Ottawa and London.
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- Voto
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- Recensioni
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- ISBN
- 83
- Lingue
- 10
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As Ms Meiksins Wood says, we cannot navigate our exit from capitalism if we are not aware as to the method of our entry thereinto.
Some of the author's assertions are at odds with Marxist views as well as, naturally, being unrepresentative of neoliberal views. This makes it easy for large blocks to gainsay her claims: that doesn't mean that they are wrong and I, for one, can see their merit.… (altro)