European Proto-Industrialization: An Introductory Handbook / Edition 2

by Sheilagh Ogilvie, Markus Cerman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521497602
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/23/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.94(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

"...this is a very good book. The essays are of a high order, many well translated." Paul M. Hohenberg, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

"...the book supplies an enormous amount of information, offers firm guidance on all the relevant issues, and makes for very stimulating reading." Beat Kúmin, JEMH

"The accessible scholarship in this book and its far reaching bibliography will continue the positive task of encouraging students on all levels to follow Mendals in continuing exploration of early modern social and economic history." Daryl M. Hafter, ILWCH

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