Early Modern Capitalism

Author : Maarten Prak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134604418

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Early Modern Capitalism by Maarten Prak Pdf

This volume takes stock of recent research on economic growth, as well as the development of capital and labour markets, during the centuries that preceded the Industrial Revolution. The book underlines the diversity in the economic experiences of early modern Europeans and suggests how this variety might be the foundation of a new conception of economic and social change.

Author : Robert S. Duplessis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521397731

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Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe by Robert S. Duplessis Pdf

Between the end of the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution, the long-established structures and practices of European agriculture and industry were slowly, disparately, but profoundly transformed. Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe, first published in 1997, narrates and analyzes the diverse patterns of economic change that permanently modified rural and urban production, altered Europe's economy and geography, and gave birth to new social classes. Broad in chronological and geographical scope and explicitly comparative, the book introduces readers to a wealth of information drawn from thoughout Mediterranean, east-central, and western Europe, as well as to the classic interpretations and current debates and revisions. The study incorporates scholarship on topics such as the world economy and women's work, and it discusses at length the impact of the emergent capitalist order on Europe's working people.

Author : Philipp Robinson Rössner
Publisher : Palgrave Pivot
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030533115

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Freedom and Capitalism in Early Modern Europe by Philipp Robinson Rössner Pdf

This book hinges upon ideas and discourses variously known under labels such as “Mercantilism” and “Cameralism”. Often viewed as antithesis of capitalism, inclusive institutions and good economy in the “West”, this book re-assembles them and builds them into a coherent origin story of modern capitalism. It explores the field of intellectual and conceptual history, especially the history of Renaissance and Mercantilism in a longer history of capitalism. Rather than hindrances, the author argues that Mercantilist and Cameralist political economies presented essential stepping stones of modern capitalism, in Britain and beyond. This book will be of interest to academics and students in general economic history, the history of capitalism, economic development and the history of economic thought.

Author : Philipp Robinson Rössner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030533090

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Freedom and Capitalism in Early Modern Europe by Philipp Robinson Rössner Pdf

This book hinges upon ideas and discourses variously known under labels such as “Mercantilism” and “Cameralism”. Often viewed as antithesis of capitalism, inclusive institutions and good economy in the “West”, this book re-assembles them and builds them into a coherent origin story of modern capitalism. It explores the field of intellectual and conceptual history, especially the history of Renaissance and Mercantilism in a longer history of capitalism. Rather than hindrances, the author argues that Mercantilist and Cameralist political economies presented essential stepping stones of modern capitalism, in Britain and beyond. This book will be of interest to academics and students in general economic history, the history of capitalism, economic development and the history of economic thought.

Author : Richard Lachmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195159608

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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.

Author : Lynette Hunter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501514241

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Humanism, Capitalism, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England by Lynette Hunter Pdf

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to concepts of the self associated with the development of humanism in England, and to strategies for both inclusion and exclusion in structuring the early modern nation state. It addresses writings about rhetoric and behavior from 1495–1660, beginning with Erasmus’ work on sermo or the conversational rhetoric between friends, which considers the reader as an ‘absent audience’, and following the transference of this stance to a politics whose broadening democratic constituency needed a legitimate structure for governance-at-a-distance. Unusually, the book brings together the impact on behavior of these new concepts about rhetoric, with the growth of the publishing industry, and the emergence of capitalism and of modern medicine. It explores the effects on the formation of the ‘subject’ and political legitimation of the early liberal nation state. It also lays new ground for scholarship concerned with what is left out of both selfhood and politics by that state, studying examples of a parallel development of the ‘self’ defined by friendship not only from educated male writers, but also from women writers and writers concerned with socially ‘middling’ and laboring people and the poor.

Author : Robert S. DuPlessis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 110840555X

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Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe by Robert S. DuPlessis Pdf

Between the end of the Middle Ages and the early nineteenth century, the long-established structures and practices of European trade, agriculture, and industry were disparately but profoundly transformed. Revised, updated, and expanded, this second edition of Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe narrates and analyses the diverse trends that greatly enlarged European commerce, permanently modified rural and urban production, gave birth to new social classes, remade consumer habits, and altered global economic geographies, culminating in capitalist industrial revolution. Broad in chronological and geographical scope and explicitly comparative, Robert S. DuPlessis' book introduces readers to a wealth of information drawn from throughout Eastern, Western and Mediterranean Europe, as well as to classic interpretations, current debates, new scholarship, and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Spencer Dimmock
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004271104

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The Origin of Capitalism in England, 1400–1600 by Spencer Dimmock Pdf

Incorporating original archival research and a series of critiques of recent accounts of economic development in pre-modern England, in The Origin of Capitalism in England, 1400-1600, Spencer Dimmock has produced a challenging and multi-layered account of a historical rupture in English feudal society which led to the first sustained transition to agrarian capitalism and consequent industrial revolution. Genuinely integrating political, social and economic themes, Spencer Dimmock views capitalism broadly as a form of society rather than narrowly as an economic system. He firmly locates its beginnings with conflicting social agencies in a closely defined historical context rather than with evolutionary and transhistorical commercial developments, and will thus stimulate a thorough reappraisal of current orthodoxies on the transition to capitalism.

Author : Koji Yamamoto
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198739173

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Taming Capitalism Before Its Triumph by Koji Yamamoto Pdf

This study examines the darker side of England's culture of economic improvement between 1640 and 1720. It is often suggested that England in this period grew strikingly confident of its prospect for unlimited growth. Indeed, merchants, inventors, and others promised to achieve immense profit and abundance. Such flowery promises were then, as now, prone to perversion, however. This volume is concerned with the taming of incipient capitalism - how a society in the past responded when promises of wealth creation went badly wrong. The notion of 'projecting' played a key role in this process. Thriving theatre, literature, and popular culture in the age of Ben Jonson began elaborating on predominantly negative images of entrepreneurs or 'projectors' as people who pursued Crown's and their own profits at the public's expense. This study examines how the ensuing public distrust came to shape the negotiation in the subsequent decades over the nature of embryonic capitalism. The result is a set of fascinating discoveries. By scrutinising greedy 'projectors', the incipient public sphere helped reorient the practices and priorities of entrepreneurs and statesmen away from the most damaging of rent-seeking behaviours. Far from being a recent response to mainstream capitalism, ideas about socially responsible business have long shaped the pursuit of wealth, power, and profit. Taming Capitalism before its Triumph unravels the rich history of broken promises of public service and ensuing public suspicion - a story that throws fresh light on England's 'transition to capitalism', especially the emergence of consumer society and the financial revolution towards the end of the seventeenth century.

Author : M. Jacob,C. Secretan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230613805

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The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists by M. Jacob,C. Secretan Pdf

A collection of essays by leading historians of early modern Europe and the U.S., this books explores how merchants, entrepreneurs, and other early modern capitalists viewed themselves.

Author : Julianne Werlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198869467

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Writing at the Origin of Capitalism by Julianne Werlin Pdf

In the late sixteenth through seventeenth centuries, England simultaneously developed a national market and a national literary culture. Writing at the Origin of Capitalism describes how economic change in early modern England created new patterns of textual production and circulation with lasting consequences for English literature. Synthesizing research in book and media history, including investigations of manuscript and print, with Marxist historical theory, this volume demonstrates that England's transition to capitalism had a decisive impact on techniques of writing, rates of literacy, and modes of reception, and, in turn, on the form and style of texts. Individual chapters discuss the impact of market integration on linguistic standardization and the rise of a uniform English prose; the growth of a popular literary market alongside a national market in cheap commodities; and the decline of literary patronage with the monarchy's loosening grip on trade regulation, among other subjects. Peddlers' routes and price integration, monopoly licenses and bills of exchange, all prove vital for understanding early modern English writing. Each chapter reveals how books and documents were embedded in wider economic processes, and as a result, how the origin of capitalism constituted a revolutionary event in the history of English literature.

Author : Robert S. DuPlessis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108417655

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Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe by Robert S. DuPlessis Pdf

Revised, updated and expanded, this second edition analyzes the structures and practices of European economies within a global context.

Author : Henry Heller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1783714603

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The Birth of Capitalism by Henry Heller Pdf

Author : Nelly Hanna
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815651154

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Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early-Modern Capitalism (1600–1800) by Nelly Hanna Pdf

Little has been written about the economic history of Egypt prior to its incorporation into the European capitalist economy. While historians have mined archives and court documents to create a picture of the commercial activities, networks, and infrastructure of merchants during this time, few have documented a similar picture of the artisans and craftspeople. Artisans outnumbered merchants, and their economic weight was considerable, yet details about their lives, the way they carried out their work, and their role or position in the economy are largely unknown. Hanna seeks to redress this gap with Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early Modern Capitalism (1600–1800) by locating and exploring the role of artisans in the historical process. Offering richly detailed portraits as well as an overview of the Ottoman Empire’s economic landscape, Hanna incorporates artisans into the historical development of the period, portraying them in the context of their work, their families, and their social relations. These artisans developed a variety of capitalist practices, both as individuals and collectively in their guilds. Responding to the demands of expanding commercial environments in Egypt and Europe, artisans found ways to adapt both production techniques and the organization of production. Hanna details the ways in which artisans defied the constraints of the guilds and actively engaged in the markets of Europe, demonstrating how Egyptian artisan production was able to compete and survive in a landscape of growing European trade. Deftly synthesizing a wide range of economic and historical theory, Hanna reinvigorates the current scholarship on early Ottoman history and provides a persuasive challenge to the largely shallow perception of artisans’ role in Egypt’s economy.

Author : Ellen Meiksins Wood
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781784787783

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The Origin of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood Pdf

How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe? In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state. Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce. Rather, it is a late and localized product of very specific historical conditions, which required great transformations in social relations and in the relationship between humans and nature.