| Description |
1 online resource (740 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Something Happened; 2 Feudal Dynamics; 3 The Limits of Urban Capitalism; 4 State Formation: England and France; 5 A Dead End and a Detour: Spain and the Netherlands; 6 Elite Defensiveness and the Transformation of Class Relations: England and France; 7 Religion and Ideology; 8 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
Here, Richard Lachmann offers a new answer to an old question: Why did capitalism develop in some parts of early modern Europe but not in others? Finding neither a single cause nor an essentialist unfolding of a state or capitalist system, Lachmann describes the highly contingent development of various polities and economies. He identifies, in particular, conflict among feudal elites--landlords, clerics, kings, and officeholders--as the dynamic which perpetuated manorial economies in some places while propelling elites elsewhere to transform the basis of their control over land and labor. Comp |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Capitalism -- Europe -- History
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Elite (Social sciences) -- Europe -- History
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Social conflict -- Europe -- History
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Capitalism
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Economic history
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Elite (Social sciences)
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Social conflict
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045668
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780195360509 |
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0195360508 |
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