Rethinking The Industrial Revolution: Five Centuries Of Transition From Agrarian To Industrial Capitalism In - Historical Materialism, Volume 49

The feudal state is often viewed as a passive actor in the rise of capitalism. Žmolek here corrects the record.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction

PART I: ENGLAND TRANSFORMED: MANUFACTURING AND AGRARIAN CAPITALISM, 1348–1783

1. The Pre-History of Industry
2. Parliament and Revolution
3. Agrarian Capitalism: The Key to Britain’s Rise to Power
4. An Empire in Crisis
5. Harvesting the Agrarian Revolution

PART II: ‘SUCH MACHINES … AS CANNOT ERR’: CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE MAKING OF INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND, 1700–1800

6. Technology and History
7. The Social Origins of the Factory
8. Factories and Machinery
9. Capital and Industry

PART III: CUSTOM’S LAST STAND: THE RISE AND FALL OF ARTISAN-LED RESISTANCE
TO CAPITALISM IN ENGLAND, 1783–1848

10. Custom and Law
11. Rebellion and Reaction
12. Class and the State
13. Reform and the Oligarchy
14. Chartists and Liberals

Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Michael Andrew Žmolek Ph.D. (2009, York University) teaches World History and International Studies at the University of Iowa, having previously taught at the University of Dubuque. His published articles explore environmental problems, development issues and the origin of capitalism

Summary

Žmolek offers the first in-depth study of the evolution of English manufacturing from the feudal and early modern periods within the context of the development of agrarian capitalism. With an emphasis on the relationship between Parliament and working Britons, this work challenges readers to 'rethink' the perception of the role of the state in the first industrial revolution as passive.

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Product details

• Authors: Michael Andrew Zmolek, Zmolek Michael Andrew
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.07.2014
• EAN: 9781608463756
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-375-6
• Weight: 1276 g
• Series: Historical Materialism; Historical Materialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, Economic history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, General and world history, C 1700 To C 1800