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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Bibliographic Details
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
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. INTRODUCTION: THE REFORMERS
  • 2. EARLY SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
  • 3. TOWARD AN ECONOMIC CONCEPTION OF THE STATE
  • 4. FORERUNNER OF THE REFORMERS: SIR JOHN FORTESCUE
  • 5. FIRST OF THE REFORMERS: SIR EDMUND DUDLEY
  • 6. THE ENLIGHTENED CONSERVATIVE: SIR THOMAS MORE
  • 7. LIFE OF DIGNITY IN THE ""TRUE COMMYN WELE"": THOMAS STARKEY
  • 8. SOCIAL PROTEST AND CHRISTIAN RENEWAL: THE COMMONWEALTHMEN
  • 9. SIR THOMAS SMITH'S NEW ""MORAL PHILOSOPHY
  • 10. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index