The Culture of Capitalism.

Ann Kussmaul, Alan Macfarlane

The American Historical Review · 1990 · 98 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Peasants - the peasantry in England before the Industrial Revolution - mythical model? population - modes of reproduction violence - peasants and bandits nature - man and the natural world evil - the root of all evil love - love and capitalism revolution - socioeconomic revolution and the origin of the modern world capitalism - the cradle of capitalism - the case of England individualism reconsidered or the craft of the historian. Appendix - the nature of capitalism.