Social Structure and the Genealogy of Change: The Transition to Capitalism in England and France: A Study in Comparative Historical Sociology

by Birtek

This book is about constructing a theory of historical change. It develops a methodology for comparative historical sociology. As much as the god-loving, hard-working, entrepreneurial, penny pinching, in short, "expansive" impulse of the yeomen, it was the lack of resilience of society, the so-called feudal society that led to the enclosures, the parliament and eventual pluralism in England. In contrast, the French village was strongly shaped by the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6099602011
• ISBN13: 9786099602011
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Vilnius Academic Publishing
• Length: 424 Pages