Book Cover --
Half-Title --
Title --
Copyright --
Contents --
Figures --
Tables --
Contributors --
Acknowledgements --
1 Early modern capitalism --
The end of feudalism and the origins of capitalism --
Trade and the emergence of a world-economy --
The agrarian roots of European capitalism --
Proto-industry and the transition to industrialization --
Economic growth and beyond --
Notes --
2 The late medieval crisis as an 'integration crisis' --
1 The 'traditional' feudal economy --
2 Outline of a new model of the feudal economy --
3 The late medieval crisis --
4 From late medieval crisis to early modern growth --
Notes --
3 The energy basis for early modern growth, 1650-1820 --
1 Energy sources and energy consumption in the eighteenth century --
Draught animals --
Fuels --
Human energy --
2 North and south --
3 The carrying capacity in 1600 --
4 A new energy system --
Notes --
4 Early modern economic growth --
1 Population growth and urbanization --
2 The development of GDP: country-by-country estimates --
3 GDP estimates: a sectoral approach --
4 The character of early modern economic growth --
Notes --
5 Pre-industrial economic growth and the transition to an industrial economy --
1 The essence of growth --
2 Growth before the modern age --
3 Constraints on premodern growth --
4 The tools of growth before industrialization --
5 Transition to modern economic growth --
6 Conclusion --
Notes --
6 International capital markets and their users, 1450-1750 --
1 The integration of money markets in late medieval Europe --
2 The impact of central European silver --
3 American silver and the European financial markets --
4 The expansion of credit --
5 Conclusion --
Notes --
7 Labour in proto-industrialization --
1 Proto-industrial labour equals rural (semi- )proletariat? --
2 Proto-industrialization equals proletarianization of labour? 3 Social inequality or life-cycle mobility? --
4 Family labour --
5 Relations of production: from structures to strategies --
Notes --
8 Problems of the 'family economy' --
1 Origins of the concept of family economy: Chayanov and his critics --
2 Peasant differentiation and allocation of labour in the proto-industrial family --
3 Pre-industrial family economy and women's labour --
4 A medieval wage economy? --
5 Farm regions and peasant differentiation after the sixteenth century --
6 Servants, family economy and agrarian labour markets --
7 Peasant ecotypes and gender-specific work patterns in agriculture --
8 Labour cycle and rural labour markets: migrant labour, proto-industry and proletarianization --
9 Urban crafts and industries: workshops, households and 'familialization' of artisan production --
10 Conclusion: family economy, family strategies and labour markets in pre-industrial Europe --
Notes --
9 Mobilization of labour in early modern Europe --
1 Five modes of labour mobilization --
Trajectory 1: Gradual local mobilization of free labour in continental western Europe --
Trajectory 2: National mobilization of unfree labour in continental eastern Europe --
Trajectory 3: National mobilization of free labour in maritime western Europe (Spain, Southern Netherlands, England) --
utch Republic) ... --
Trajectory 5: International mobilization of free and unfree labour in maritime western Europe (southern Europe) --
2 Merchant capitalism and labour mobilization --
Notes --
10 Economic growth before and after the Industrial Revolution --
1 Modern economic growth --
2 The neo-Malthusian model --
3 The Industrial Revolution --
4 Re-thinking economic growth --
Modern growth --
Pre-industrial growth --
5 From two models to one --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index.