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SUMMARY:Empires of Labor: Coercion and the Making of the Modern World
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DESCRIPTION:From the seventeenth century to the First World War\, both fre
 e and unfree labor were essential for building an empire. Overturning conv
 entional explanations of serfdom\, slavery\, indentured migration and wage
  labor\, Alessandro Stanziani will present his analysis of aristocratic ca
 pitalism across Europe and Eurasia until the end of the nineteenth century
 . This ambitious book\, which he is presenting for the first time in Oxfor
 d\, examines the relationship between capitalism and coercion across the B
 ritish\, French and Russian empires throughout centuries of economic trans
 formation. He will link the Industrial Revolution\, the Great Divergence a
 nd the Great Transformation into a single narrative in which the coercion 
 and emancipation of labor are crucial steps. Stanziani’s new book argues
  that\, if the modern state is now beset with labor inequalities and tensi
 ons surrounding mobility\, it is not because Western values have been hija
 cked but because they were built on empire\, labor and coercion. Empires o
 f Labor: Coercion and the Making of the Modern World was released by Cambr
 idge University Press in 2025.
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LOCATION:Schwarzman Centre\, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Woodstock Road 
    OX2 6GG
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