Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe Book contents
- Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
- New Approaches to European History
- Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures, Maps, Tables, and Graph
- Preface
- Maps
- Part I
- Part II Introduction: The Long Sixteenth Century
- Part III Introduction: From Seventeenth-century Crisis to Long Eighteenth Century
- 6 Commerce, Capital, Consumption
- 7 Agriculture: Divergence, Development, Disappointment
- 8 Proto-industry to Early Industrial Revolution
- 9 Transitions
- Appendices
- Index
- References
7 - Agriculture: Divergence, Development, Disappointment
from Part III - Introduction: From Seventeenth-century Crisis to Long Eighteenth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 September 2019
- Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
- New Approaches to European History
- Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures, Maps, Tables, and Graph
- Preface
- Maps
- Part I
- Part II Introduction: The Long Sixteenth Century
- Part III Introduction: From Seventeenth-century Crisis to Long Eighteenth Century
- 6 Commerce, Capital, Consumption
- 7 Agriculture: Divergence, Development, Disappointment
- 8 Proto-industry to Early Industrial Revolution
- 9 Transitions
- Appendices
- Index
- References
Summary
During the long sixteenth century, the increased agricultural commercialization and specialization, differentiation among the rural population, and concentration of land ownership that marked late medieval agrarian Europe had become more pronounced. Novel trends had also gotten underway: tenurial reorganization, a “little divergence” between Eastern and Western European agrarian structures and farming practices, the supplanting of Mediterranean by northwestern lands, the appearance of areas marked by change even within regions typified by stability. Old or new, all had encountered headwinds even before the crisis decades in the seventeenth century.
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- Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern EuropeEconomies in the Era of Early Globalization, c. 1450 – c. 1820, pp. 232 - 274Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019