The Brenner Debate
Subtitle: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-industrial Europe (Past and Present Publications)
Contributors: T. H. Aston (Editor); C. H. E. Philpin (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 31, 1985
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780521268172
Subjects: Europe; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Business & Economics / Economic History; Europe - Social conditions; History; Economic conditions; Agriculture; Economic aspects
First sentence: General interpretations of the processes of long-term economic change in late medieval and early modern Europe have continued to be constructed almost exclusively in terms of what might loosely be called "objective" economic forces - in particular, demographic fluctuations and the growth of trade and markets.