This article offers a critique of Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nişancioğlu's "How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism". We argue that while all historiography features a number of silences, shortcomings or omissions, the omissions in "How the West Came to Rule" lead to...

Front Cover -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Dedication -- Introduction: Towards a Global Political Economy of the 1% -- Political Economy and the Elite -- The Main Arguments and Structure of the Book -- 1: The Unusual Suspects: Identifying the...