Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe: Economies in the Era of Early Globalization, c. 1450 – c. 1820: 60 (New Approaches to European History, Series Number 60)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 9/30/2019
EAN 9781108405553, ISBN10: 110840555X
Paperback, 392 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
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.
Preface
Part I
1. Issues and interpretations
2. European economies on the eve of globalization
Part II
Introduction
the long sixteenth century
3. Goods and people on the move
4. The limits of agricultural growth
5. Industrial tradition and innovation
Part III
Introduction
from seventeenth-century crisis to long eighteenth century
6. Commerce, capital, consumption
7. Agriculture
divergence, development, disappointment
8. Proto-industry to early Industrial Revolution
9. Transitions
Appendices.