By races the story of capitalism during the past millennium across the world, a. Shows that emerging from trading communities across Asia, Africa, and Europe, capitalism’s radical recasting of economic life gradually rooted itself. Drawing on archives on six continents, the book locates important modes of agency, resistance, innovation, and ruthless coercion everywhere in the world, opening the aperture from heads of state to rural cultivators. Shows that despite the dependence on expansion, there always have been, and are still, areas of human life that the capitalist revolution has yet to reach. Read more.