General Economic History

Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition Keith Tribe Conceptual Preface Part 1: Household, Clan, Village and Manor 1. Agricultural Organization and the problem of Agrarian Communism 2. Property Systems and Social Groups 3. The Origin of Seigniorial Proprietorship 4. The Manor 5. The Position of the Peasants in Various Western Countries Before the Entrance of Capitalism 6. Capitalistic Development of the Manor Part 2: Industry and Mining Down to the Beginning of the Capitalistic Development 7. Principal Forms of the Economic Organization of Industry 8. Stages in the Development of Industry and Mining 9. The Craft Guilds 10. The Origin of the European Guilds 11. Disintegration of the Guilds and Development of the Domestic System 12. Shop Production. The Factory and its Fore-Runners 13. Mining Prior to the Development of Modern Capitalism Part 3: Commerce and Exchange in the Pre-Capitalistic Age 14. Points of Departure in the Development of Commerce 15. Technical Requisites for the Transportation of Goods 16. Forms of Organization of Transportation and of Commerce 17. Forms of Commercial Enterprise 18. Mercantile Guilds 19. Money and Monetary History 20. Banking and Dealings in Money in the Pre-Capitalistic Age 21. Interests in the Pre-Capitalistic Period Part 4: The Origin of Modern Capitalism 22. The Meaning and Presuppositions of Modern Capitalism 23. The External Facts in the Evolution of Capitalism 24. The First Great Speculative Crises 25. Free Wholesale Trade 26. Colonial Policy from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century 27. The Development of Industrial Technique 28. Citizenship 29. The Rational State 30. The Evolution of the Capitalistic Spirit. Index