{"id":53812,"date":"2021-02-25T14:42:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T14:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2021\/02\/empire-west-scheidel-escape-from-rome\/"},"modified":"2021-02-25T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T14:42:11","slug":"the-roman-road-to-capitalism-and-the-rise-of-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/25\/the-roman-road-to-capitalism-and-the-rise-of-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roman Road to Capitalism and the Rise of the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question of how Europe and its North American offshoot came to dominate the world is of perennial interest to historians. The scholarly debate has produced many different explanations for why and when the West came to rule, from the rise of agrarian capitalism and the uneven development of powerful territorial states to the colonial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2021\/02\/empire-west-scheidel-escape-from-rome\/\">Jacobin<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question of how Europe and its North American offshoot came to dominate the world is of perennial interest to historians. The scholarly debate has produced many different explanations for why and when the West came to rule, from the rise of agraria&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2601,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53813,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53812\/revisions\/53813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}