The return of the guilds
By: edited by Jan Lucassen, Tine De Moor, and Jan Luiten van Zanden
Series: International review of social history. Supplement -- 16; International review of social history -- 16.
Publisher: Published for the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam, [by] Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780521737654
Subjects: Congresses; Guilds; History
Notes: "The essays ... originate from a conference organized in October 2006 by the International Institute of Social History and the reseasrch group in social and economic history at Utrecht University on the theme 'The Return of the Guilds'"--P. [5].

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface : S.R. Epstein (1960-2007) and the guilds / Maarten Prak; title: The return of the guilds : towards a global history of the guilds in pre-industrial times / Jan Lucassen, Tine De Moor, and Jan Luiten van Zanden; title: Women, gender and guilds in early modern Europe : an overview of recent research / Claire Crowston; title: The political economy of European craft guilds : power relations and economic strategies of merchants and master artisans in the medieval and early modern textile industries / Hugo Soly; title: Ottoman guilds in the early modern era / Onur Yildirim; title: The guild in modern South Asia / Tirthankar Roy; title: Brotherhoods and stock societies : guilds in pre-modern Japan / Mary Louise Nagata; title: Rural guilds and urban-rural guild relations in early modern Central Europe / Josef Ehmer; title: Guilds reappraised : Italy in the early modern period / Luca Mocarelli; title: The silent revolution : a new perspective on the emergence of commons, guilds and other forms of corporate collective action in Western Europe / Tine De Moor; title: Chinese guilds from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries : an overview / Christine Moll-Murata; title: From guild to rotary : hunters' associations and Mali's search for a civil society / Jan Jansen.