{"product_id":"europe-america-and-the-wider-world-volume-1-europe-and-the-world-economy-essays-on-the-economic-history-of-western-capitalism-paperback-9780521274807","title":"Europe, America, and the Wider World: Volume 1, Europe and the World Economy; Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism (Paperback) 9780521274807","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEurope, America, and the Wider World: Volume 1, Europe and the World Economy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEssays on the economic history of Western Europe since the Renaissance.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam Nelson Parker (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521274807, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 28 September 1984\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.43 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'William Parker's graceful and speculative essays presuppose that economic progress is rooted in political and intellectual life. To borrow one of his own titles, they are an 'opportunity sequence', inviting the historian to rethink economic development in a cultural context.' Charles S. Mailer, Harvard University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTaken together, the essays in this volume offer a particular, yet comprehensive, view of the economic history of Western Europe since the Renaissance. The focus is wide and the level of treatment deep. Between 1550 and 1940, Professor Parker contends, the development of European capitalism was, in a sense, all of a piece. He separates the development into three periods and processes - 'Malthusian', 'Smithian', and 'Schumpeterian'. Each period was governed by a characteristic dynamic that produced productivity growth, in the presence of other favourable elements, and influenced also the evolution of the forms of industrial and economic life. A certain internal logic is claimed for this progression, which in the nineteenth century extended this system and technology efficiently over much of the globe. In the concluding essay, Professor Parker examines the break-up of the capitalist synthesis and speculates on its transmutation into other forms. Essays and reviews previously available in widely scattered sources are brought together here for the first time and arranged and amplified to develop the central theses.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eEditors' preface\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Renaissance and the Twentieth Century: 1. What historians must explain\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Europe's Industrialization: The Pre-History: 2. The pre-history of the nineteenth century\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Heavy Industrialization in the European Regions: 3. The interruption of expansion\u003cbr\u003e 4. The organization of rapid expansion\u003cbr\u003e 5. Law and enterprise: ore-mining on two sides of the Franco-German border\u003cbr\u003e 6. Kartelle und Konzerne: the German coal syndicate under the steel mills' domination\u003cbr\u003e 7. M. Schuman and his plan\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Europe and the Wider World: An Explanation from Technology: 8. Europe-centered development: its natural logic\u003cbr\u003e 9. Communication techniques and social organization in the world economy\u003cbr\u003e 10. The historians' reviews of the terrain\u003cbr\u003e Part V. European Capitalism: A Synthetic View: 11. Opportunity sequences in European history\u003cbr\u003e 12. The response mechanism in the twentieth century\u003cbr\u003e 13. A comment on the papers: personal reflections and some diagrams\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Economic history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Economic history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Economic%20history%20%5BKCZ%5D%22\"\u003eKCZ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006968647960,"sku":"9780521274807","price":30.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521274807i_d6717d4c-9a10-4d26-a161-4bc070436ceb.jpg?v=1691374355","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/europe-america-and-the-wider-world-volume-1-europe-and-the-world-economy-essays-on-the-economic-history-of-western-capitalism-paperback-9780521274807","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}