Kaveh Yazdani

• PhD
• Assistant Professor at University of Connecticut

Inwiefern ist die Unterscheidung zwischen freien und unfreien Arbeitsverhältnissen im Hinblick auf die Geschichte und Dynamik des Kapitalismus sinnvoll? Anhand einer kursorischen Untersuchung und Analyse, insbesondere deutschsprachiger Diskurse über Sklaverei und (freie) Lohnarbeit seit dem späten 18. Jahrhundert, wird ein erster Versuch unternomme...

Zuerst auf dem Merkur-Blog erschienen: https://www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/2024/04/12/kritische-anmerkungen-zum-herrschenden-n-wort-diskurs/

The present paper examines the socioeconomic conditions for the ascendancy of the Zoroastrian community in Western India between the 18th and 19th centuries. This study reinforces the well-established thesis on the role played by the Parsis in the development of capitalism in India. What distinguishes it from other narratives is the periodization o...

Objective/Context: This interview discusses the expansion of the camel caravan trade between roughly the sixth and sixteenth centuries. Wheeled transportation-used in West Asia during the Roman and Sasanid periods-basically disappeared around 500 CE, when camel caravans took over the transport business. Since the domestication of camels in Southern...

Objective/Context: The purpose of this article is first to contextualize the concept of the “Global South.” Then, we offer an overview of classical and new historiographies of capitalism(s) of the “Global South.” We focus on works that examine the period between roughly the 10th and 19th centuries, and further explain how we understand and periodiz...

Table of Contents 1. Capitalisms of the “Global South” (c. 10th to 19th Centuries) – Old and New Contributions and Debates· 3-41 Kaveh Yazdani, University of Connecticut, United States Constanza Castro, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia 2. Capitalism and Global Mining: Latin American Perspectives 1500-1914· 43-76 James V. Torres, Universidad de...

This article begins by surveying the commercial structure of nineteenth-century Yazd, centring on the economic activities of its Zoroastrian inhabitants. Next, we examine the house of Mehrabān, arguing that they were intermediate figures in Persia's transition from a pre-capitalist to an inchoate capitalist mode of production. Throughout the mid- t...

This paper critically engages with the recent literature on capitalism and slavery through the lens of Saint-Domingue. The first section examines some of the socio-economic dynamics in 16th- to 18th-century France. This is followed by an examination of Saint-Domingue’s allocation of tropical commodities, including the island’s role in the emerging...

This book tries to decenter work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue duree from the tenth century; at regions as diverse as Song China, South and South East Asia, Latin America and the Ottoman and Safavid Empires; and exploring the plurality of developments over this extended time and space. The authors argue against conventional...

Nasser Mohajer and Kaveh Yazdani, "Reading Marx in the Divergence Debate", in Benjamin Zachariah, Lutz Raphael & Brigitta Bernet (eds.), What’s Left of Marxism: Historiography and the Possibilities of Thinking with Marxian Themes and Concepts, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2020, pp. 173-240. The article consists of the following sections:...

This paper is a critique of Vira Ameli’s essay titled “Sanctions and Sickness,” which was published in the March/April 2020 edition of the New Left Review. In her essay, Ameli employs selective evidence and makes inaccurate claims. Her piece is not only an unreserved defense of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), but a fabricated and deceitful port...

Since the seminal publication of Kenneth Pomeranz’s The Great Divergence (2000), there has been a continuing upsurge of writings on the possible reasons behind the rise of the West from a “global perspective.” Most of these studies focus on comparisons between Western Europe and China. Yet, in recent years works on India and the great divergence ha...

A global history of capitalisms from the 10th to the 18th century covering themes like silver, slavery and a geography extending from China, India and SE Asia to the Ottoman, Safavid and Russian empires

This paper enquires into Mysore’s potentialities for a proto-capitalist development and a sort of industrialization during the reigns of Haidar ‘Ali (r. 1761–82) and Tipu Sultan (r. 1782–99)—the first Muslim rulers of the sultanate of Mysore. During the second half of the eighteenth century, these two autocrats were not only among the most powerful...

''India, Modernity and the Great Divergence is an original and pioneering book about India’s transition towards modernity and the rise of the West. The work examines global entanglements alongside the internal dynamics of 17th to 19th century Mysore and Gujarat in comparison to other regions of Afro-Eurasia. It is an interdisciplinary survey that e...

It was during the reigns of the late-eighteenth-century rulers of Mysore, Haidar ‘Ali (r.1761–82) and Tipu Sultan (r.1782–99), that one of the earliest efforts of semi-modernization in the regions of West, Central and South Asia, as well as North Africa was taking place. Some scholars have described Haidar and Tipu as premodern rulers, but continui...

During the second half of the eighteenth century, the first Muslim rulers of Mysore—Haidar ‘Ali (c. 1720-82) and his son Tipu Sultan (c. 1750-99)—were amongst the first South and West Asian rulers to unleash a process of administrative, socio-economic and military protomodernisation. Haidar, a rather cautious and pragmatic autocrat who could neithe...

Der vorliegende Artikel befasst sich mit (1.) der tiefreichenden Ver-flechtung von Religion und Staat in Iran sowie (2.) der Ent steh ung einer schiitischen Teokratie sowohl als Ergebnis eines Zu sam men-stoßes von internen (d.h. politischen, ideologischen, sozialen und ökonomischen) und externen (Imperialismus) Strukturen als auch von kurzfristig z...