Early Modern Capitalism: Economic and Social Change in Europe 1400-1800

✍ Scribed by MAARTEN PRAK

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 248
• Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume takes stock of recent research on economic growth, as well as the development of capital and labor markets in early modern Europe. The book underlines the diversity in the eocnomic experiences and suggests how this variety might be the foundation of a new conception of economic and social change.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Figures......Page 9
Tables......Page 10
Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
1 Early modern capitalism......Page 14
The end of feudalism and the origins of capitalism......Page 16
Trade and the emergence of a world-economy......Page 17
The agrarian roots of European capitalism......Page 21
Proto-industry and the transition to industrialization......Page 23
Economic growth and beyond......Page 27
Notes......Page 32
2 The late medieval crisis as an ‘integration crisis’......Page 36
1 The ‘traditional’ feudal economy......Page 37
2 Outline of a new model of the feudal economy......Page 44
3 The late medieval crisis......Page 46
4 From late medieval crisis to early modern growth......Page 55
Notes......Page 58
1 Energy sources and energy consumption in the eighteenth century......Page 62
Draught animals......Page 63
Fuels......Page 64
2 North and south......Page 65
3 The carrying capacity in 1600......Page 68
4 A new energy system......Page 74
Notes......Page 78
4 Early modern economic growth......Page 80
1 Population growth and urbanization......Page 81
2 The development of GDP: country-by-country estimates......Page 84
3 GDP estimates: a sectoral approach......Page 91
4 The character of early modern economic growth......Page 95
Notes......Page 97
5 Pre-industrial economic growth and the transition to an industrial economy......Page 98
1 The essence of growth......Page 99
2 Growth before the modern age......Page 101
3 Constraints on premodern growth......Page 103
4 The tools of growth before industrialization......Page 106
5 Transition to modern economic growth......Page 109
6 Conclusion......Page 111
Notes......Page 113
1 The integration of money markets in late medieval Europe......Page 118
2 The impact of central European silver......Page 120
3 American silver and the European financial markets......Page 125
4 The expansion of credit......Page 126
5 Conclusion......Page 132
Notes......Page 133
1 Proto-industrial labour equals rural (semi-)proletariat?......Page 136
2 Proto-industrialization equals proletarianization of labour?......Page 139
3 Social inequality or life-cycle mobility?......Page 140
4 Family labour......Page 141
5 Relations of production: from structures to strategies......Page 142
Notes......Page 145
8 Problems of the ‘family economy’......Page 146
1 Origins of the concept of family economy: Chayanov and his critics......Page 148
2 Peasant differentiation and allocation of labour in the proto-industrial family......Page 150
3 Pre-industrial family economy and women’s labour......Page 151
4 A medieval wage economy?......Page 153
5 Farm regions and peasant differentiation after the sixteenth century......Page 155
6 Servants, family economy and agrarian labour markets......Page 156
7 Peasant ecotypes and gender-specific work patterns in agriculture......Page 158
8 Labour cycle and rural labour markets: migrant labour, proto-industry and proletarianization......Page 159
9 Urban crafts and industries: workshops, households and ‘familialization’ of artisan production......Page 163
10 Conclusion: family economy, family strategies and labour markets in pre-industrial Europe......Page 166
Notes......Page 168
9 Mobilization of labour in early modern Europe......Page 172
1 Five modes of labour mobilization......Page 174
Trajectory 2: National mobilization of unfree labour in continental eastern Europe......Page 175
Trajectory 3: National mobilization of free labour in maritime western Europe (Spain, Southern Netherlands, England)......Page 176
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Trajectory 5: International mobilization of free and unfree labour in maritime western Europe (southern Europe)......Page 178
2 Merchant capitalism and labour mobilization......Page 180
Notes......Page 183
10 Economic growth before and after the Industrial Revolution......Page 188
1 Modern economic growth......Page 189
2 The neo-Malthusian model......Page 191
3 The Industrial Revolution......Page 193
Modern growth......Page 195
Pre-industrial growth......Page 197
5 From two models to one......Page 200
Notes......Page 202
Bibliography......Page 206
Index......Page 242