Robert Brenner's thesis on the transition from feudalism to capitalism -- The prime mover of economic and social development -- Class conflict and the crisis of feudalism -- Insecure property and the origin of capitalism -- The rise of capitalist yeomen and a capitalist aristocracy -- Periodising the origin of capitalism in England -- Orthodox Marxism versus political Marxism -- Economy and society in late medieval Lydd and its region -- An emerging capitalist social-property structure -- Engrossment, enclosure and resistance in the sixteenth century -- Legitimising social transformation: the festival of St. George
Summary
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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-394) and index
