European Proto-Industrialization: An Introductory Handbook

ISBN-13: 9780521497381 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 288 str.

Sheilagh Ogilvie; Markus Cerman

Opis

This collection of essays provides an up-to-date introduction to "protoindustrialization": the growth of rural export industries that took place all over Europe between about 1500 and 1800. Since the 1970s some historians have argued that protoindustrialization broke down traditional society and prepared the way for the industrial revolution. These studies survey the resulting debates and research and provide an essential guide to an important, yet often confusing field of economic and social history.

Recenzje

'An excellent introduction to the enormous literature on proto-industrialization … this is a very useful collection of essays which will deservedly find a place on many undergraduate and graduate reading lists.' The English Historical Review

Spis treści

List of illustrations; List of tables; List of contributors; 1. The theories of proto-industrialization Sheilagh C. Ogilvie and Markus Cerman; 2. 'Proto-industrialization' as a research strategy and a historical period - a balance sheet Jürgen Schlumbohm; 3. Social institutions and proto-industrialization Sheilagh C. Ogilvie; 4. Proto-industrialization in France Pierre Deyon; 5. Proto-industrialization in England Pat Hudson; 6. Ireland 1841: pre-industrial or proto-industrial; industrializing or de-industrializing? L. A. Clarkson; 7. Proto-industrialization in Spain J. K. J. Thomson; 8. Proto-industry in Flanders: a critical review Christiaan Vandenbroeke; 9. Proto-industrialization in Germany Sheilagh C. Ogilvie; 10. Proto-industrialization in Switzerland Ulrich Pfister; 11. The proto-industrial heritage: forms of rural proto-industry in northern Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Carlo Marco Belfanti; 12. Proto-industrial development in Austria Markus Cerman; 13. Proto-industrialization in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia Milan My∫ka; 14. Proto-industrialization in Sweden Lars Magnusson; 15. Proto-industrialization, economic development and social change in early modern Europe Sheilagh C. Ogilvie and Markus Cerman; References; Index.