The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700University of California Press, 28 Απρ 2023 - 450 σελίδες The history of capitalism is not to be explained in mere economic terms. David Harris Sacks here demonstrates that the modern Western economy was ushered in by broad processes of social, political, and cultural change. His study of Bristol as it opened it gate to national politics and the Atlantic economy reveals capitalism to be not just a species of economic order but a distinct form of life, governed by its own ethical norms and cultural practices. Availing himself of the methods of "thick description," socio-economic analysis, and political theory, Sacks examines the dynamics by which early modern Bristol moved from a medieval commercial economy to an early capitalist one. Throughout the period, the life of the city depended heavily on the successes of its great overseas merchants. But their quest for a monopoly of trade with the outside world, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Levant, came into conflict with the concerns of Bristol's artisans and retail shopkeepers. The battles of the two factions conditioned social and cultural developments in Bristol for two centuries. Locally, the conflict set the terms for developing conceptions of justice and authority. On a larger scale, it drew the community firmly into the great affairs of the realm and the wider world of expanding markets beyond. |
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... 23 138 144 5. The Swearing of the New Mayor at Michaelmas in the Late Fifteenth Century 176 6. James Millerd's View of Bristol , 1673 354 Tables 1. Nonsweet Wine Trade , 1400-1500 2. Cloth Exports xi Illustrations Illustrations.
... 23 138 144 5. The Swearing of the New Mayor at Michaelmas in the Late Fifteenth Century 176 6. James Millerd's View of Bristol , 1673 354 Tables 1. Nonsweet Wine Trade , 1400-1500 2. Cloth Exports xi Illustrations Illustrations.
Σελίδα xxi
... late Professor W. K. Jordan's graduate seminar at Harvard , in which I wrote a paper on Bristol in the Civil War . This research so intrigued me that upon its comple- tion I made it the proposed subject of my dissertation . But my first ...
... late Professor W. K. Jordan's graduate seminar at Harvard , in which I wrote a paper on Bristol in the Civil War . This research so intrigued me that upon its comple- tion I made it the proposed subject of my dissertation . But my first ...
Σελίδα xxii
... late 1630s were inca- pable of coping with the new economic order taking shape among the colonial traders . I knew then that I had a solution to the dilemma posed by my dissertation , and I began pursuing the implications of my find ...
... late 1630s were inca- pable of coping with the new economic order taking shape among the colonial traders . I knew then that I had a solution to the dilemma posed by my dissertation , and I began pursuing the implications of my find ...
Σελίδα xxiv
... late Raymond de Roover , who gave me my first training in late me- dieval and early modern economic history , and Madeline Robinton xxiv Acknowledgments.
... late Raymond de Roover , who gave me my first training in late me- dieval and early modern economic history , and Madeline Robinton xxiv Acknowledgments.
Σελίδα xxv
... late Elliott Perkins , with whom I did not study in a formal sense , nonetheless taught me im- mensely important lessons about the close relationship of teaching to scholarship and about the larger ethical purposes of an academic career ...
... late Elliott Perkins , with whom I did not study in a formal sense , nonetheless taught me im- mensely important lessons about the close relationship of teaching to scholarship and about the larger ethical purposes of an academic career ...
Περιεχόμενα
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54 | |
Organizing the Society | 85 |
In a Worshipful State 14501650 | 129 |
The Navel of the World | 131 |
The Sanctification of Power | 160 |
Little Businesses | 194 |
Looking Backward | 225 |
A Shoemakers Holiday | 251 |
Registering the Pilgrimage | 278 |
The Spirit World | 304 |
The Widening Gate of Capitalism | 331 |
Abbreviations | 363 |
Notes | 365 |
Index | 453 |
The Capitalism of the Spirit 16501700 | 249 |
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The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700 David Harris Sacks Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 1991 |
The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700 David Harris Sacks Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 1991 |
The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700 David Harris Sacks Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2023 |
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