Brenner Debate Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe

Name: Brenner Debate Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe
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ISBN: 9780521349338

ISBN-10: 0521349338

ISBN-13: 9780521349338

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Authors: T. H. Aston, C. H. E. Philpin, Lyndal Roper

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Few historical issues have occasioned such discussion since at least the time of Marx as the transition from feudalism to capitalism in western Europe. The Brenner Debate, which reprints from Past and Present various article in 1976, is a scholarly presentation of a variety of points of view, covering a very wide range in time, place and type of approach. Weighty theoretical responses to Brenner's first formulation followed from the late Sir Michael Postan, John Hatcher, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and Guy Bois; more particular contributions came from Patricia Croot, David Parker, Arnost Klma and Heide Wunder on England, France, Bohemia and Germany; and reflective pieces from R. H. Hilton and…

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List price: $36.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/30/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.63" wide x 7.99" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

CRIS BEAM is a journalist who has written for several national magazines as well as for public radio. She has an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University and teaches creative writing at Columbia and the New School. She lives in New York.Lyndal Roper is professor of history at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Balliol College.



Preface


Introduction




Agrarian class structure and economic development in pre-industrial Europe




Population and class relations in feudal society




Agrarian class structure and the development of capitalism: France and England compared




Peasant organization and class conflict in Eastern and Western




A reply to




Against the neo-malthusian orthodoxy




A crisis of feudalism




In search of agrarian capitalism




Agrarian class structure and economic development in pre-industrial bohemia




The Agrarian roots of European capitalism



Index