Foundations of political economy : some early Tudor views on state and society /

Conventional wisdom claims that the seventeenth century gave birth to the material and ideological forces that culminated in the Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalism. Not true, according to Neal Wood, who argues that much earlier reformers--Dudley, Starkey, Brinklow, Latimer, Crowley, Be...

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Main Author: Wood, Neal
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=4568
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Summary:Conventional wisdom claims that the seventeenth century gave birth to the material and ideological forces that culminated in the Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalism. Not true, according to Neal Wood, who argues that much earlier reformers--Dudley, Starkey, Brinklow, Latimer, Crowley, Becon, Lever, and Thomas Smith, as well as the better-known More and Fortescue--laid the groundwork by fashioning an economic conception of the state in response to s.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 319 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-302) and index.
ISBN:9780520913448
0520913442
0585098603
9780585098609
0520081455