The undevelopment of capitalism : sectors and markets in fifteenth-century Tuscany / Rebecca Jean Emigh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emigh, Rebecca Jean, 1962-

Series:

Politics, history, and social change.

Politics, history, and social change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Italy--Tuscany--History--To 1500.

Capitalism.

Tuscany (Italy)--Economic conditions.

Tuscany (Italy).

Tuscany (Italy)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The results of a decade-long research study by the author, in The Undevelopment of Capitalism Rebecca Jean Emigh argues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the development of markets of other economies, especially the rural economy of Tuscany, paradoxically slowing down the economic development of northern Italy overall. This ""undeveloping"" process, as Emigh calls it, produced an advanced economy at the time of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, but created the conditions whereby much of this area of Europe delaye

Contents:

Capitalism and Tuscany: investigating the past

Tuscany as a negative case of transition to capitalism

Linking sectors and markets

Smallholding: the circulation of property

Urban involvement in agriculture

Sharecropping: the consolidation of property

Comparing productivity, income, and indebtedness

Conclusions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-255) and index.

ISBN:

9786611973186

9781592136209

1592136206

9781281973184

1281973181

OCLC:

476226152