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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... Practice and Social Change in Britain , 1380-1530 , edited by Lee Patterson 9. Trials of Authorship : Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare , by Jonathan Crewe 10. Rabelais's Carnival : Text , Context ...
... Practice and Social Change in Britain , 1380-1530 , edited by Lee Patterson 9. Trials of Authorship : Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare , by Jonathan Crewe 10. Rabelais's Carnival : Text , Context ...
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... practices . But this book is not about economics alone . It is grounded on the belief that we can no more abstract the economy from politics , culture , and society than we can separate intentional human action from thought and judgment ...
... practices . But this book is not about economics alone . It is grounded on the belief that we can no more abstract the economy from politics , culture , and society than we can separate intentional human action from thought and judgment ...
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... practices associated with them changed during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . In Part 3 , the story moves into the second half of the seventeenth century , concen- trating on the 1660s and 1670s , to explore how the ...
... practices associated with them changed during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . In Part 3 , the story moves into the second half of the seventeenth century , concen- trating on the 1660s and 1670s , to explore how the ...
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... practices " and inquiring " into the relations among these practices " ? " These questions are especially grounded in the recent development of economic history as a field . In the 1930s , as F. J. Fisher has pointed out , the main ...
... practices " and inquiring " into the relations among these practices " ? " These questions are especially grounded in the recent development of economic history as a field . In the 1930s , as F. J. Fisher has pointed out , the main ...
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... practices governing the whole of social life . This kind of culture is neither monolithic nor un- contested . As Stephen Greenblatt has stressed , every aspect of it involves negotiation : " a subtle , elusive set of exchanges , a ...
... practices governing the whole of social life . This kind of culture is neither monolithic nor un- contested . As Stephen Greenblatt has stressed , every aspect of it involves negotiation : " a subtle , elusive set of exchanges , a ...
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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