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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... trade understood in both these senses . Its citizens looked for their sustenance to the pathways that led beyond its boundaries , and in doing so they developed a distinctive outlook and pattern of action in the pursuit of their ends ...
... trade understood in both these senses . Its citizens looked for their sustenance to the pathways that led beyond its boundaries , and in doing so they developed a distinctive outlook and pattern of action in the pursuit of their ends ...
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... trade levels in the two commodities displayed the same rhythm of upward and downward movement . To a large degree this pattern in Bristol's trade persisted throughout the first half of the fif- teenth century . To be sure , Bristolians ...
... trade levels in the two commodities displayed the same rhythm of upward and downward movement . To a large degree this pattern in Bristol's trade persisted throughout the first half of the fif- teenth century . To be sure , Bristolians ...
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... trading rights in Gascony . At various periods , including most of the first half of the fifteenth century , the English were even able to trade their own wares duty - free in Gascony . In addition , the English king was anxious to sus ...
... trading rights in Gascony . At various periods , including most of the first half of the fifteenth century , the English were even able to trade their own wares duty - free in Gascony . In addition , the English king was anxious to sus ...
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... trade with Gascony did not cease entirely , Bristolians now dealt with it as foreigners in the territories of a former enemy , not as privileged parties in the dominions of their own king . At the same time , the Iberian trades grew in ...
... trade with Gascony did not cease entirely , Bristolians now dealt with it as foreigners in the territories of a former enemy , not as privileged parties in the dominions of their own king . At the same time , the Iberian trades grew in ...
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... trade , when it revived , that Bristol lacked.17 The most severe effects of this early sixteenth - century commercial difficulty were felt by the cloth trade . In the closing years of Henry VII's reign , its boom in Bristol simply ended ...
... trade , when it revived , that Bristol lacked.17 The most severe effects of this early sixteenth - century commercial difficulty were felt by the cloth trade . In the closing years of Henry VII's reign , its boom in Bristol simply ended ...
Περιεχόμενα
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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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