Spencer Dimmock

The Origin of Capitalism in England 1400-1600

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Produktbeschreibung

A spirited defense of Brenner's thesis about the origins of capitalism in the English countryside based on original archival research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 399
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9781608464852
• ISBN-10: 1608464857
• Artikelnr.: 41627777

Autorenporträt

Spencer Dimmock, Ph.D. (1999), University of Kent at Canterbury, is an Honorary Research Fellow in History at Swansea University. He has published many articles and chapter contributions on pre-modern England and Wales

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I: A DEFENCE OF ROBERT BRENNER
1. Robert Brenner's Thesis on the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
2. The Prime Mover of Economic and Social Development
3. Feudalism, Serfdom and Extra-Economic Surplus Extraction
4. Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism
5. Insecure Property and the Origin of Capitalism
6. The Rise of Capitalist Yeomen and a Capitalist Aristocracy
7. Periodising the Origin of Capitalism in England
8. Orthodox Marxism versus Political Marxism
PART II: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN KENT: A CASE STUDY
9. Economy and Society in Late Medieval Lydd and its Region
10. Engrossment, Enclosure and Resistance in the Fifteenth Century
11. An Emerging Capitalist Social-Property Structure
12. Engrossment, Enclosure and Resistance in the Sixteenth Century
13. Legitimising Social Transformation: The Festival of St. George
Conclusion
Appendix
References
Index