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How the west came to rule offers a unique interdisciplinary account which argues that capitalisms origins should be understood as the outcome of global processes in which non-European societies played a decisive role. Through an analysis of Mongolian expansion, new world discoveries, ottoman habsburg rivalry, the development of the Asian colonies and bourgeois revolutions. Alexander Anievas and Karem Nisancioglu explain how these diverse events and processes came together to produce capitalism