Industiarlization Before Industiarlization

by Peter Kriedte, Jürgen Schlumbohm, Hans Medick, et al.

Book Overview

Beginning in the late Middle Ages, and accelerating in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there developed in many rural regions of Europe a domestic industry, mass-producing craft goods for distant markets. This book presents an analysis of this 'industrialization before industrialization', and considers the question whether it constituted a distinct mode of production, different from the preceding feudal economy and from subsequent industrial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521282284
• ISBN13: 9780521282284
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"