i had the same experience as @davidimarcus, in my understanding of us history there was a before and an after reading this book….even if i found parts of it hard going like the religion chapter early on…..i would like to go back to that chapter and try to actually understand it
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i wouldn't dismiss the centrality and profoundness of the communications/transportation aspect of the story — in fact, there is a sense in which "the growth of the market" is an abstraction/mystification whose real content is "the growth of communications and transport" — along,
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of course, with the third leg of that tripod, "the expansion of money." (But a monetized, commodified economy probably depends more on expanded comm/transp than vice versa.) There's a really interesting book on the European version of this story:https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/modernity-and-bourgeois-life/ABB9D1E64BD91585B50BD6D8682F7A5F …
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