Author : Richard Lachmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195159608
Capitalists in Spite of Themselves by Richard Lachmann Pdf
Here, Lachmann offers a new explanation for the origins of nation-states and capitalist markets in early modern Europe. Comparing regions and cities within and across England, France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands from the 12th through 18th centuries, he shows how conflict among feudal elites---landlords, clerics, kings, and officeholders---transformed the bases of their control over land and labor, forcing the winners of feudal conflicts to become capitalists in spite of themselves as they took defensive actions to protect their privileges from rivals in the aftermath of the Reformation.