Capitalists in spite of themselves : elite conflict and economic transitions in early modern Europe
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Capitalists in spite of themselves : elite conflict and economic transitions in early modern Europe
Oxford University Press, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-302) and index
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Description
Richard Lachmann's work offers a new explanation for the origins of nation-states and capitalist markets in early modern Europe. Comparing regions and cities within and across England, France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries, Lachmann shows how conflict among feudal elites--landlords, clerics, kings and officeholders--transformed the bases of their control over land and labor, forcing the winners of feudal conflicts to
become capitalists in spite of themselves as they took defensive actions to protect their privileges from rivals in the aftermath of the Reformation.
Table of Contents
1: Something Happened
2: Feudal Dynamics
3: The Limits of Urban Capitalism
4: State Formation
5: A Dead End and a Detour: Spain and the Netherlands
6: Elite Defensiveness and the Transformation of Class Relations in Britain and France
7: Religions and Ideology
8: Conclusion
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