Author: Marc BlochPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226059790
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Feudal Society: The growth of ties of dependence
Author: Marc BlochPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226059790
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Feudal Society
Author: Marc BlochPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415039161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Annotation. Feudal Society discusses the economic and social conditions in which feudalism developed providing a deep understanding of the processes at work in medieval Europe.
Feudal Society
Author: Marc BlochPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113495588X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
Feudal Society discusses the economic and social conditions in which feudalism developed providing a deep understanding of the processes at work in medieval Europe
Why Europe?
Author: Michael MitterauerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226532380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Why did capitalism and colonialism arise in Europe and not elsewhere? Why were parliamentarian and democratic forms of government founded there? What factors led to Europe’s unique position in shaping the world? Thoroughly researched and persuasively argued, Why Europe? tackles these classic questions with illuminating results. Michael Mitterauer traces the roots of Europe’s singularity to the medieval era, specifically to developments in agriculture. While most historians have located the beginning of Europe’s special path in the rise of state power in the modern era, Mitterauer establishes its origins in rye and oats. These new crops played a decisive role in remaking the European family, he contends, spurring the rise of individualism and softening the constraints of patriarchy. Mitterauer reaches these conclusions by comparing Europe with other cultures, especially China and the Islamic world, while surveying the most important characteristics of European society as they took shape from the decline of the Roman empire to the invention of the printing press. Along the way, Why Europe? offers up a dazzling series of novel hypotheses to explain the unique evolution of European culture.
Must We Divide History Into Periods?
Author: Jacques Le GoffPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023154040X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the advent of modern rationality in the Italian thought and culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Jacques Le Goff pleads for a strikingly different view. In this, his last book, he argues persuasively that many of the innovations we associate with the Renaissance have medieval roots, and that many of the most deplorable aspects of medieval society continued to flourish during the Renaissance. We should instead view Western civilization as undergoing several "renaissances" following the fall of Rome, over the course of a long Middle Ages that lasted until the mid-eighteenth century. While it is indeed necessary to divide history into periods, Le Goff maintains, the meaningful continuities of human development only become clear when historians adopt a long perspective. Genuine revolutions—the shifts that signal the end of one period and the beginning of the next—are much rarer than we think.
The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
Author: Paul Marlor SweezyPublisher:
ISBN: 9789350023341
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Greed, Lust and Gender
Author: Nancy FolbrePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199238421
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
This book dramatizes the history of self-interest by describing a centuries-long debate over greed, lust, and appropriate gender roles in terms that ordinary readers will enjoy. Ranging from the 18th century to the present, it offers a deft and engaging critique of economic history and the history of ideas from a feminist perspective.
The Origin of Capitalism
Author: Ellen Meiksins WoodPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1784787787
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe? In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state. Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce. Rather, it is a late and localized product of very specific historical conditions, which required great transformations in social relations and in the relationship between humans and nature.
A Source Book for Mediæval History
Author: Oliver J. ThatcherPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
A Source Book for Mediæval History is a scholarly piece by Oliver J. Thatcher. It covers all major historical events and leaders from the Germania of Tacitus in the 1st century to the decrees of the Hanseatic League in the 13th century.
Author: Marc Bloch