Ellen Meiksins Wood Reader

Description: Ellen Meiksins Wood is a leading contemporary political theorist who has been described as the founder, together with Robert Brenner, of Political Marxism, ' a distinct version of historical materialism which has inspired a research program that spans a number of academic disciplines. Organized thematically, this Reader provides an overview of her original interpretations of capitalism, and many different topics.

Brief description: Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942-2016), for many years Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, was the author of many books, including Democracy Against Capitalism, The Pristine Culture of Capitalism, The Origin of Capitalism, Peasant-Citizen and Slave, Citizens to Lords, Empire of Capital and Liberty and Property.

Review Quotes: The writing is so supple and accessible, and the argument so persuasive, it's like watching a cloudy mixture of ideas being turned into a clear solution."
Adrienne Rich, on The Origins of Capitalism

Few historians of comparative political thought are in the same league as Ellen Wood, who surveys the whole sweep of ancient and medieval thinkers with equal magisterial brilliance of insight."
Professor Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge

Meiksins Wood is a rare breed an academic with the soul of a storyteller."
Morning Star

Immensely impressive, bold and erudite ... Meiksins Woods conclusions are undeniably nuanced, challenging and important."
Times Higher Education Supplement