The Origin of capitalism in England, 1400-1600

✍ Scribed by Dimmock, Spencer

• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 407
• Series: Historical materialism book series 74
• Edition: Lam
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In The Origin of Capitalism in England, 1400-1600, Spencer Dimmock has produced a challenging and multi-layered account of a historical rupture in English feudal society which led to the first sustained transition to agrarian capitalism and consequent industrial revolution.

Abstract: In The Origin of Capitalism in England, 1400-1600, Spencer Dimmock has produced a challenging and multi-layered account of a historical rupture in English feudal society which led to the first sustained transition to agrarian capitalism and consequent industrial revolution

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Robert Brenner's thesis on the transition from feudalism to capitalism --
The prime mover of economic and social development --
Class conflict and the crisis of feudalism --
Insecure property and the origin of capitalism --
The rise of capitalist yeomen and a capitalist aristocracy --
Periodising the origin of capitalism in England --
Orthodox Marxism versus political Marxism --
Economy and society in late medieval Lydd and its region --
An emerging capitalist social-property structure --
Engrossment, enclosure and resistance in the sixteenth century --
Legitimising social transformation: the festival of St. George.

✦ Subjects

Capitalism -- England -- History -- 15th century. Capitalism -- England -- History -- 16th century. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference. Capitalism. England.