Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
Economies in the Era of Early Globalization, c. 1450 – c. 1820

Revised, updated and expanded, this second edition analyzes the structures and practices of European economies within a global context.

Robert S. DuPlessis (Author)

9781108405553, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 September 2019

390 pages, 16 b/w illus. 5 maps 14 tables
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.63 kg

'With this second addition DuPlessis raises his already fine analysis to a higher level. Extended bibliographies reflect the proliferation of recent research on global trade networks (including slavery), patterns of consumption, and women's work. DuPlessis gives full weight to regional variations in economic development. Altogether, this is an outstanding account, lucidly and fluently written.' Tom Scott, University of St Andrews

Between the end of the Middle Ages and the early nineteenth century, the long-established structures and practices of European trade, agriculture, and industry were disparately but profoundly transformed. Revised, updated, and expanded, this second edition of Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe narrates and analyses the diverse trends that greatly enlarged European commerce, permanently modified rural and urban production, gave birth to new social classes, remade consumer habits, and altered global economic geographies, culminating in capitalist industrial revolution. Broad in chronological and geographical scope and explicitly comparative, Robert S. DuPlessis' book introduces readers to a wealth of information drawn from throughout Eastern, Western and Mediterranean Europe, as well as to classic interpretations, current debates, new scholarship, and suggestions for further reading.

Preface
Part I: 1. Issues and interpretations
2. European economies on the eve of globalization
Part II: Introduction: the long sixteenth century
3. Goods and people on the move
4. The limits of agricultural growth
5. Industrial tradition and innovation
Part III: Introduction: from seventeenth-century crisis to long eighteenth century
6. Commerce, capital, consumption
7. Agriculture: divergence, development, disappointment
8. Proto-industry to early Industrial Revolution
9. Transitions
Appendices.

Subject Areas: Economic history [KCZ], Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], European history [HBJD]