The Beginnings of Capitalism in Central Europe.

• Author: Levitt, Cyril.
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Peter Lang Publishing, Incorporated,, 2021.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (378 pages)

This book focuses on the beginnings of capitalism in Central Europe with emphasis on the German speaking areas from the 14thto the 17thcentury.

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• About the Author and This Book
• Preface Krader in Context ( David Levine )
• Reply to Krader in Context ( Cyril Levitt )
• Translator's Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Author's Foreword
• Part I
• Chapter One: The Beginnings of Modern Bourgeois Society in Central Europe
• Chapter Two: Theoretical Conceptions of the Transition from Feudalism to the Modern Era in the History of Central Europe
• 2.1. General Remarks
• 2.2. The Transition from Feudalism to Modern Bourgeois Society According to Karl Marx
• 2.3. Max Weber and the Spirit of Capitalism
• 2.4. Sombart, Kulischer, von Below, Strieder, Brentano, Janssen, Pareto, Braudel
• 2.5. Schumpeter
• 2.6. The Capitalist System and Modern Bourgeois Society
• 2.7. Social Form and Substance
• 2.8. On the Theory of Labour and Technique as Part of the Labour Process in the Period of Early Capitalism
• Part II
• Chapter Three: Labour Processes in Central Europe, 15th-17th Centuries
• 3.1. The Population and Its Numbers
• 3.2. The Condition of the Peasants
• 3.3. Labour Processes in the City: General Considerations Concerning Harmony and Struggle
• 3.4. The Guild System, the Putting-Out System and Manufacture
• 3.5. Merchants, Trade and Calculating Skills [Rechenkunst]
• 3.5.1. Arithmetic, Calculating Skills
• 3.5.2. Merchants and Trade
• Part III
• Chapter Four: Machines, Mechanics, Time and Geometry
• 4.1. Mechanical Clocks and the Consciousness of Time
• 4.1.1. Mechanical Clocks
• 4.1.2. The Measurement and Consciousness of Time
• 4.2. Wage Labour and the Politics of Wages in the Early Capitalist Period
• 4.3. Labour and Society, Public and Private Interests
• Chapter Five: Mining and Metallurgy
• 5.1. Mining Freedom
• 5.2. Structuring of Labour in Mining During the 14th and 15th Centuries.
• 5.3. Labour and Processing in Mining
• 5.4. The Iron Industry in Central Europe in the 15th and 16th Centuries
• Europe in the World
• Capitalism and Developed Culture
• From the Social Contract to the Concept of Society in the Capitalist Period
• Bibliography
• Illustrations
• Index.