Format:
1 online resource (248 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415217149
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9780203988954
Series Statement:
Routledge Explorations in Economic History Series
Content:
An international board of contributors underline the diversity in the economic experiences of early modern Europeans, and suggest how this variety might be the foundation of a new conception of economic and social change
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Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Early modern capitalism -- The end of feudalism and the origins of capitalism -- Trade and the emergence of a world-economy -- The agrarian roots of European capitalism -- Proto-industry and the transition to industrialization -- Economic growth and beyond -- Notes -- Part I Economic growth -- 2 The late medieval crisis as an 'integration crisis' -- 1 The 'traditional' feudal economy -- 2 Outline of a new model of the feudal economy -- 3 The late medieval crisis -- 4 From late medieval crisis to early modern growth -- Notes -- 3 The energy basis for early modern growth, 1650-1820 -- 1 Energy sources and energy consumption in the eighteenth century -- Draught animals -- Fuels -- Human energy -- 2 North and south -- 3 The carrying capacity in 1600 -- 4 A new energy system -- Notes -- 4 Early modern economic growth -- 1 Population growth and urbanization -- 2 The development of GDP: country-by-country estimates -- 3 GDP estimates: a sectoral approach -- 4 The character of early modern economic growth -- Notes -- 5 Pre-industrial economic growth and the transition to an industrial economy -- 1 The essence of growth -- 2 Growth before the modern age -- 3 Constraints on premodern growth -- 4 The tools of growth before industrialization -- 5 Transition to modern economic growth -- 6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II Capital and labour -- 6 International capital markets and their users, 1450-1750 -- 1 The integration of money markets in late medieval Europe -- 2 The impact of central European silver -- 3 American silver and the European financial markets -- 4 The expansion of credit -- 5 Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Labour in proto-industrialization -- 1 Proto-industrial labour equals rural (semi-)proletariat?
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2 Proto-industrialization equals proletarianization of labour? -- 3 Social inequality or life-cycle mobility? -- 4 Family labour -- 5 Relations of production: from structures to strategies -- Notes -- 8 Problems of the 'family economy' -- 1 Origins of the concept of family economy: Chayanov and his critics -- 2 Peasant differentiation and allocation of labour in the proto-industrial family -- 3 Pre-industrial family economy and women's labour -- 4 A medieval wage economy? -- 5 Farm regions and peasant differentiation after the sixteenth century -- 6 Servants, family economy and agrarian labour markets -- 7 Peasant ecotypes and gender-specific work patterns in agriculture -- 8 Labour cycle and rural labour markets: migrant labour, proto-industry and proletarianization -- 9 Urban crafts and industries: workshops, households and 'familialization' of artisan production -- 10 Conclusion: family economy, family strategies and labour markets in pre-industrial Europe -- Notes -- 9 Mobilization of labour in early modern Europe -- 1 Five modes of labour mobilization -- Trajectory 1: Gradual local mobilization of free labour in continental western Europe -- Trajectory 2: National mobilization of unfree labour in continental eastern Europe -- Trajectory 3: National mobilization of free labour in maritime western Europe (Spain, Southern Netherlands, England) -- utch Republic) ... -- Trajectory 5: International mobilization of free and unfree labour in maritime western Europe (southern Europe) -- 2 Merchant capitalism and labour mobilization -- Notes -- Part III Conclusion -- 10 Economic growth before and after the Industrial Revolution -- 1 Modern economic growth -- 2 The neo-Malthusian model -- 3 The Industrial Revolution -- 4 Re-thinking economic growth -- Modern growth -- Pre-industrial growth -- 5 From two models to one -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Prak, Maarten Early Modern Capitalism Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2001 ISBN 9780415217149
Language:
English
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