Age of commerce, the: merchants, markets and wealth in the early modern atlantic world
Auteur :
Gervais, Pierre
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781009862899
Date de publication :
28 févr. 2027
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
In an ambitious, revisionist interpretation, Pierre Gervais argues that the early modern European economy was not a prelude to modern industrial capitalism. Structured around monopolistic groups pushing for aggressive expansion, it collapsed in the early nineteenth century and was replaced, not continued, by capitalist, productivity-based growth.