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IN THIS ARTICLE THE AUTHOR CENTENDS FIRST THAT THE LEADING FABIANS HAD DIFFERENT THEORIES OF RENT. SECOND THATTHESE DIFFERENT THEORIES ARE LINKED TO DIFFERENT REASONS FOR BEING PARLIAMENTARY GRADUALISTS, DIFFERENT VIEWS OF HOW TO SECURE PARLIAMENTARY POWER AND DIFFERENT VISIONS OFA SOCIALIST SOCIETY. THUS, IF THERE IS A DISTINCTIVE FABIAN SOCIALISM IT DOES NOT REST ON A SHARED THEORY OF RENT. ITS SOPHISTICATION AND HOW IT FORMED THE BASIS FOR S

This book is an innovative collection of essays by a new generation of British and American historians and political theorists. Moving beyond a conventional action/reaction view of capitalism and its critics, the volume explores how critical traditions and beliefs have helped to shape capitalism. Chapters follow diverse critiques in Britain and America and explore their Atlantic and imperial exchanges. The volume includes chapters on questions of law and property in the Victorian empire; traditions of land reform in nineteenth century America and Britain; the influence of American romanticism on British socialism; the role of Britain in American progressivism; American and British consumer protection; the evolution of trusteeship and ideas of cosmopolitan democracy; the 'third way' and narratives of globalization. The editors' introduction offers a critical historiographical survey and, by stepping beyond the dogmatic opposition between post-modernists and empiricists, provides a new research agenda for an integrated study of capitalism and its critics.