Capitalists in Spite of Themselves : Elite Conflict and European Transitions in Early Modern Europe.

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 vari...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lachmann, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cary : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Temas:
Capitalism > Europe > History.
Elite (Social sciences) > Europe > History.
Social conflict > Europe > History.
Élite (Sciences sociales) > Europe > Histoire.
Capitalism
Economic history
Elite (Social sciences)
Social conflict
Europe > Economic conditions.
Europe > Conditions économiques.
Europe
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (740 pages)
ISBN:9780195360509
0195360508

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