Studies In Pre-capitalist Modes Of Production: Historical Materialist Volume 97

In this collection British and Argentinian historians analyze the Asiatic, Germanic, peasant, slave, feudal, and tributary modes of production by exploring historical processes and diverse problems of Marxist theory. The studies treat an array of pre-capitalist social formations, including medieval Iceland and Norway, Byzantium, the Roman Empire, ancient Egypt, medieval León and Castile, and the Castilian later Middle Ages.

Laura da Graca, Ph.D. (2005), is Professor of Medieval History at the University of La Plata (Argentina). She has published several works on medieval Castile, including Poder político y dinámica feudal. Procesos de diferenciación social en distintas formas señoriales (siglos XIV-XVI)” (Valladolid, 2009).

Andrea Zingarelli, Ph.D. (2003), is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History and Egyptology at the University of La Plata. She has published several works on ancient Egyptian society and economy, including Trade and Market in New Kingdom Egypt” (Oxford, 2010).