附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-302) and index.
1 Something Happened; 2 Feudal Dynamics; 3 The Limits of Urban Capitalism; 4 State Formation: England and France; 5 A Dead End and a Detour: Spain and the Netherlands; 6 Elite Defensiveness and the Transformation of Class Relations: England and France; 7 Religion and Ideology; 8 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.
摘要:Here, Richard Lachmann offers a new answer to an old question: Why did capitalism develop in some parts of early modern Europe but not in others? Finding neither a single cause nor an essentialist unfolding of a state or capitalist system, Lachmann describes the highly contingent development of various polities and economies. He identifies, in particular, conflict among feudal elites--landlords, clerics, kings, and officeholders--as the dynamic which perpetuated manorial economies in some places while propelling elites elsewhere to transform the basis of their control over land and labor. Comp.
