Ellen Meiksins Wood

Ellen Meiksins Wood ( * 1942 in New York City ) is a Marxist historian and former editor of the Monthly Review. It is regarded as a leading English-language Marxist theorist.

Life

Wood was born in 1941 as daughter of Latvian refugees in New York and was named Ellen Meiksins. Her parents saw themselves because of their Jewish faith forced to leave the area occupied by Germany, Latvia, they were also members of the Federation. In Berkeley Wood gained in 1962 from the University of California the BA in Slavic Languages ​​. She then studied political science at the University of California in Los Angeles. In the years 1967-1996 she taught this subject at York University in Toronto. In the 1980s, Wood was on the editorial board of New Left Review, from 1997 to 2000, along with Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy, co-editor of Monthly Review.

She was married to Neil Wood, who died in 2003. Together they released in the 70s some essays.

He currently lives and works in London Wood. She writes for the Socialist Register and the American magazine Against the Current.

Works

  • Mind and politics, 1972, Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520020294th
  • Ellen Meiksins Wood and Neal Wood: Class ideology and ancient political theory, 1978, Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0,631,183,701th
  • The Retreat from Class: A New 'True' Socialism, 1986, London: Verso. ISBN 0860911284th
  • Peasant - Citizen and Slave. The Foundations of Athenian Democracy, 1988, London; New York: Verso. ISBN 0,860,911,950th
  • The Pristine Culture of Capitalism. A Historical Essay on Old Regime and Modern States, 1991, London; New York: Verso. ISBN 0860915530th
  • Democracy against Capitalism. Renewing Historical Materialism, 1995, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052147096X.
  • A Trumpet of Sedition. Political Theory and the Rise of Capitalism 1509-1688, 1997, London: Pluto Press. ISBN 074531175X.
  • The Origin of Capitalism. A Longer View, 2002, London; New York: Verso. ISBN 1,859,843,921th
  • Empire of Capital, 2003, London; New York: Verso. ISBN 1859845029th
  • Citizens to Lords. A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, 2008, London; New York: Verso. ISBN 9,781,844,672,431th
  • The Ellen Wood Meiksins Reader, ed. v. Larry Patriquin, 2013, Chicago: Haymarket Books. ISBN 9,781,608,462,797th

As editor

  • Ellen Wood and John Bellamy Foster Meiksins (ed.): In defense of history, c1997, New York: Monthly Review Press. ISBN 0,853,459,835th
  • Robert W. McChesney, Ellen Wood and John Bellamy Foster Meiksins (ed.): Capitalism and the information age, c1998, New York: Monthly Review Press. ISBN 0853459894th
  • Ellen Meiksins Wood, Peter Meiksins and Michael Yates (ed.): Rising from the ashes, c1998, New York: Monthly Review Press. ISBN 0853459398th

German translations

  • The unit begins at home, 1998, Hamburg: VSA -Verlag. ISBN 3-87975-929-4.
  • Transformation of capitalism, 1999, Hamburg: VSA -Verlag. ISBN 3-87975-948-0.
  • Democracy versus capitalism. Contributions to the renewal of historical materialism, 2010, Cologne: New ISP -Verlag. ISBN 978-3-89900-123-5.
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