European aristocracies and colonial elites : patrimonial management strategies and economic development, 15th-18th centuries
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European aristocracies and colonial elites : patrimonial management strategies and economic development, 15th-18th centuries
Ashgate, c2005
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-276) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
'Aristocracies', 'Old Regime colonial elites' - from Adam Smith to Karl Marx and beyond, scholars have discussed their role in the rise of the modern world, in economic development and capitalism. Generally speaking and with the exception of the English landlords, the verdict has been always negative. Furthermore, historians have usually viewed the Ancien regime aristocracies and colonial elites as social groups with entirely irrational or completely apathetic attitudes towards the management of their estates. This book constitutes the first attempt to analyse the question in a more critical and historical way. It takes a directly comparative approach, covering countries from Peru to Russia and from Naples to England in the early modern period and up to the end of the 18th century. The rationale of how these elites administered their patrimonies, its political, social and sometime moral dimensions, and the real effects of all this on economic development are considered here as key aspects for a better understanding of economic life. The result is a quite different picture in which economic history is also seen as the outcome of human actions in their own social and political context.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction, Paul Janssens & Bartolome Yun-Casalilla
- Old regime aristocracies, colonial elites and economic development: a reconsideration, Bartolome Yun-Casalilla. Northern Europe: Landlords and economic development in England, 1450-1800, Robert C. Allen
- The characteristics of an aristocratic economy in France, 16th-18th centuries, Jean Duma
- The economic role of the Belgian aristocracy in the 17th and 18th centuries, Karel Degryse and Paul Janssens. Southern Europe: From political and social management to economic management? Castilian aristocracy and economic development, 1450-1800, Bartolome Yun-Casalilla
- the aristocratic estates in Portugal and their management, 1600-1834, Nuno GonAalo Monteiro
- The structure of aristocratic patrimonies in the kingdom of Naples: management strategies and regional development, 16th-18th centuries, Giovanni Muto. Central and Eastern Europe: Two ages of seigniorial economy in Brandenburg-Prussia: structural innovation in the 16th century, productivity gains in the 18th century, William W. Hagen
- Entrepreneurship and management on the estates of the Austrian nobility, 1550-1780, Herbert Knittler
- Economic activity of the Polish nobility and its consequences: the manorial system in the early modern times, Jerzy Topolski
- Early modern Russian estate management and economic development, Richard Hellie. Colonial America: The role of aristocratic management strategies in the economic development of the British North American Chesapeake, Lorena S. Walsh
- Ephemeral splendor and a lengthy tradition: the Peruvian aristocracy of the late colonial period, Juan F. Marchena
- Brazilian sugar planters as aristocratic managers, 1550-1825, Stuart B. Schwartz
- Final considerations: Aristocracies and economic progress under the Ancien Regime, Patrick Karl O'Brien. Selected bibliography
- Index.
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