Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe analyzes the diverse patterns of economic change that transformed agriculture and industry between the end of the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution. Explicitly comparative, it introduces readers to a wealth of factual material, to classic interpretations, and to current debates. In this study Professor DuPlessis also incorporates recent scholarship on the world economy, proto-industry and women's work, and discusses the impact of the new economic order on Europe's working people.
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"...the author provides specialist-quality insights on many topics, such as eastern landlords, the English enclosure movement, the Atlantic economy, 'proto-industrialization,' and the place of women and children in cottage industry. The author's serious, fair-minded approach to complex questions and controversies is appreciated." Choice
"...the book successfully examines comparative and particular experiences with capitalism. DuPlessis' work will enlighten students in early modern European surveys and topical courses." Claire D. Schen, Agricultural History
"This book is an ideal introduction for beginners and a judicious review for nonspecialists." Duane J. Osheim, History
"...the book successfully examines comparative and particular experiences with capitalism. DuPlessis' work will enlighten students in early modern European surveys and topical courses." Claire D. Schen, Agricultural History
"This book is an ideal introduction for beginners and a judicious review for nonspecialists." Duane J. Osheim, History
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Transitions to capitalism in early modern Europe analyzes the diverse patterns of economic change that transformed agriculture and industry between the end of the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution. Explicitly comparative, it introduces readers to a wealth of factual material, to classic interpretations, and to current debates. In this study Professor DuPlessis also incorporates recent scholarship on the world economy, proto-industry and women's work, and discusses the impact of the new economic order on Europe's working people.
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In 1800, nine out of ten Europeans lived in small towns and villages, where most engaged, as their ancestors had since Neolithic times, in farming. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
east central lands, seigniorial levies, long sixteenth century, seigniorial dues, factory industrialization, centralized workplaces, demographic advance, late medieval crisis, middling peasants, convertible husbandry, light drapery, long eighteenth century, surplus appropriation, enclosed farms, original accumulation, new drapery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Low Countries, Dutch Republic, New York, Economic History Review, Industrial Revolution, North Sea, Dutch Revolt, Social History, Black Death, Jan de Vries, North America, Documents of European Economic History, Ottoman Empire, Adam Smith, Venetian Arsenal, Old World, Spanish America, West Indian, Act of Parliament, Catholic Church, Chapel Hill, Frederick the Great, French Economic History, French Flanders New!
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In 1800, nine out of ten Europeans lived in small towns and villages, where most engaged, as their ancestors had since Neolithic times, in farming. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
east central lands, seigniorial levies, long sixteenth century, seigniorial dues, factory industrialization, centralized workplaces, demographic advance, late medieval crisis, middling peasants, convertible husbandry, light drapery, long eighteenth century, surplus appropriation, enclosed farms, original accumulation, new drapery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Low Countries, Dutch Republic, New York, Economic History Review, Industrial Revolution, North Sea, Dutch Revolt, Social History, Black Death, Jan de Vries, North America, Documents of European Economic History, Ottoman Empire, Adam Smith, Venetian Arsenal, Old World, Spanish America, West Indian, Act of Parliament, Catholic Church, Chapel Hill, Frederick the Great, French Economic History, French Flanders New!
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- The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics) by Adam Smith on page 7, page 13, and page 252
- An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith on page 7, and page 13
- The Industrial Revolution: Ideas That Changed the World by Robert R. Ingpen on page 189, and page 255
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- Luxury and Public Happiness in the Italian Enlightenment (Oxford Historical Monographs) by Till Wahnbaeck on 4 pages
- The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England by Henry S. Turner on page 25, page 43, and Back Matter
- Disease, Diagnosis, and Cure on the Early Modern Stage (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity) by Stephanie Moss on page 90, and Back Matter
- The Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487-1726: A Rural Society in Early Modern Europe (Past and Present Publications) by Govind P. Sreenivasan in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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