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
- 3 Goods and People on the Move
- 4 The Limits of Agricultural Growth
- 5 Industrial Tradition and Innovation
- Part III Introduction: From Seventeenth-century Crisis to Long Eighteenth Century
- Appendices
- Index
- References
5 - Industrial Tradition and Innovation
from Part II - Introduction: The Long Sixteenth 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
- 3 Goods and People on the Move
- 4 The Limits of Agricultural Growth
- 5 Industrial Tradition and Innovation
- Part III Introduction: From Seventeenth-century Crisis to Long Eighteenth Century
- Appendices
- Index
- References
Summary
As befit principally agrarian economies, industrial trends largely paralleled agricultural across the long sixteenth century: substantial growth in output from the mid- or late fifteenth century to at least the 1560s, followed by stagnation and (from about 1600) decline that might persist to the 1650s. As in agriculture, too, similarities and differences marked the histories of individual regions, trades, and specialties, yet if every area had flourishing as well as depressed industries, industrial primacy was shifting from the Mediterranean to the North Sea area. Analogous to the dominant role of known practices and techniques in promoting agricultural advance, so – despite several noteworthy inventions – most industrial growth was achieved by product innovation manufactured with existing technology.
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- Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern EuropeEconomies in the Era of Early Globalization, c. 1450 – c. 1820, pp. 133 - 178Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019