The Undevelopment of Capitalism - Sectors and Markets in Fifteenth-century Tuscany

Klappentext Argues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the development of markets of other economies slowing down the economic development of northern Italy overall Zusammenfassung Argues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the development of markets of other economies - especially the rural economy of Tuscany. This title shows how sectoral relations are crucial to transitions to capitalism and how capitalist development can also contract markets. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Capitalism and Tuscany: Investigating the Past; 2. Tuscany as a Negative Case of Transition to Capitalism; 3. Linking Sectors and Markets; 4. Smallholding: The Circulation of Property; 5. Urban Involvement in Agriculture; 6. Sharecropping: The Consolidation of Property; 7. Comparing Productivity! Income! and Indebtedness; 8. Conclusions

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• Authors: Rebecca Emigh, Rebecca Jean Emigh
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2008
• EAN: 9781592136193
• ISBN: 978-1-59213-619-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Politics, History, & Social Change; Politics History & Social Chan; Politics, History, and Social; Politics History & Social Chan; Politics, History, and Social
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries