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European Proto-Industrialization

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European Proto-Industrialization

European Proto-Industrialization

An Introductory Handbook
Sheilagh Ogilvie, University of Cambridge
Markus Cerman, Universität Wien, Austria
March 1996
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    This collection of essays provides an introduction to 'proto-industrialization': the growth of export-oriented domestic industries which took place all over Europe between about 1500 and 1800. Often these industries expanded alongside agriculture, without advanced technology or centralised factories. Since the 1970s numerous theories have been proposed, arguing that proto-industrialization transformed demographic behaviour, social structure and traditional institutions, and was a major cause of capitalism and factory industrialisation. European Proto-Industrialization summarises the theories and criticisms, and includes chapters written by experts on different European countries. It provides an essential guide to an important, yet often confusing, field of economic and social history.

    • Clear and non-technical introduction to an important historical debate
    • Makes a wide range of research on Europe available in English for the first time
    • Encompasses the economic, social, demographic, institutional and political history of early modern Europe

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    '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

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    March 1996
    Paperback
    9780521497602
    288 pages
    227 × 151 × 17 mm
    0.415kg
    11 maps
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    Contents

    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.
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    • Sheilagh C. Ogilvie, Markus Cerman, Jürgen Schlumbohm, Pierre Deyon, Pat Hudson, L. A. Clarkson, J. K. J. Thomson, Christiaan Vandenbroeke, Ulrich Pfister, Carlo Marco Belfanti, Milan My∫ka, Lars Magnusson

      • Editors
    • Sheilagh Ogilvie , University of Cambridge
    • Markus Cerman , Universität Wien, Austria

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