The origin of capitalism in England, 1400-1600 / / by Spencer Dimmock.

Incorporating original archival research and a series of critiques of recent accounts of economic development in pre-modern England, 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 soci...

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Superior document:Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume 74
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Historical materialism book series ; Volume 74.
Physical Description:1 online resource (407 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 1 Robert Brenner’s Thesis on the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
  • 2 The Prime Mover of Economic and Social Development
  • 3 Feudalism, Serfdom and Extra-Economic Surplus Extraction
  • 4 Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism
  • 5 Insecure Property and the Origin of Capitalism
  • 6 The Rise of Capitalist Yeomen and a Capitalist Aristocracy
  • 7 Periodising the Origin of Capitalism in England
  • 8 Orthodox Marxism versus Political Marxism
  • 9 Economy and Society in Late Medieval Lydd and its Region
  • 10 Engrossment, Enclosure and Resistance in the Fifteenth Century
  • 11 An Emerging Capitalist Social-Property Structure
  • 12 Engrossment, Enclosure and Resistance in the Sixteenth Century
  • 13 Legitimising Social Transformation: The Festival of St. George
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Index.