Ellen Meiksins Wood

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Ellen Meiksins Wood
Meiksins Wood in 2012
Born	Ellen Meiksins (1942-04-12)April 12, 1942 New York City, New York, US
Died	January 14, 2016(2016-01-14) (aged 73) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	American Canadian
Other names	Ellen Wood
Spouses	Neal Wood ​ ​ (m. 1968; died 2003)​ Ed Broadbent ​ (m. 2014)​
Academic background
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis	Epistemological Foundations of Individualism (1970)
Academic work
Discipline	Political science
Sub-discipline	Political theory
School or tradition	Political Marxism
Institutions	York University
Notable works	The Retreat from Class (1986) The Origin of Capitalism (1999)
Notable ideas	Political Marxism
Influenced	Gáspár Miklós Tamás

Ellen Meiksins Wood (April 12, 1942 – January 14, 2016) was an American-Canadian Marxist historian, and one of the primary developers of the Marxist tendency known as political Marxism.