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Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe

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Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe - Lachmann, Richard
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Here, Lachmann offers a new explanation for the origins of nation-states and capitalist markets in early modern Europe. Comparing regions and cities within and across England, France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands from the 12th through 18th centuries, he shows how conflict among feudal elites---landlords, clerics, kings, and officeholders---transformed the bases of their control over land and labor, forcing the winners of feudal conflicts to become capitalists in spite of themselves as they took defensive actions to ...

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Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe 2002, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195159608

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