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Caliban and the Witch traces the transition to capitalism through peasant revolts, European witch hunts, scientific rationalism, and the colonisation of the Americas. It presents a history of how pre-capitalist life was reshaped through violence, with particular attention to the crushing of occult traditions and women’s reproductive freedom.

Readers interested in social history, feminism, and the making of the modern world will find a wide-ranging account of power, control, and bodily discipline. The result is a focused look at the forces that helped form modern society and the costs of that transformation.