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- adjective Pertaining to precapitalism, a time before
capitalism . - noun A member of a precapitalist society.
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Examples
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While many scholars focus on the incorporation of the globe into the modern world system, a few, such as Thomas Hall, call for research on "precapitalist" (that is, premodern) incorporations. 13 The fact that the Chinese were extraordinarily successful as an imperial power in East Asia and Southeast Asia will provide a better understanding of precapitalist incorporations in world history.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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One also finds a neo-Marxian preoccupation with the formation of social classes and the struggle of 'precapitalist' ways of thinking and living in a world increasingly dominated by a commercial and industrial bourgeoisie.
Down on the Farm Fredrickson, George M. 1987
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The premise of the precapitalist paradigm of expression holds that consciousness is part of the rubicon of art.
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The premise of the precapitalist paradigm of expression holds that consciousness is part of the rubicon of art.
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I regard China as a precapitalist world-system or world-economy (to use Wallerstein's terms) that incorporated Yunnan. 86 But was Yunnan a frontier area, an independent world-system, a section of another world-system, or an external area over which the two world-economies were contending?
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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My study of Yunnan is aimed at revealing this mechanism in order to present a case for its precapitalist incorporation into the Chinese world-system, as well as to improve upon some inaccuracies in the world-system debates.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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Therefore, all the ethnic units in China, including the Han, were not minzu but buzu (narodnost in Russian), a stage between tribe (buluo) and nation (minzu) in the linear Marxist social trajectory, because China before 1949 was labeled as "semi-feudal and semi-colonial," 19 a precapitalist society.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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Leaders of the CCP envisioned that these reforms in ethnic areas would cause the disappearance of precapitalist societies in which ethnic groups were living.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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In short, the collapse of the cowry system in Yunnan revealed that the globalizing modern world-system, while incorporating the Indian Ocean precapitalist world-system, pushed Yunnan, part of the Indian Ocean precapitalist world-system, or a peripheral region overlapped by two world - economies, to be incorporated into the Chinese world-system.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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In doing so, they have untangled claims after the California gold rush, picked up the pieces of Europe's crumbling precapitalist order, converted Japan's feudal enclaves into a market economy after World War II and reunified Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
TOXIC Paper 2009
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