General economic history

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition -- Conceptual Preface -- Part I: Household, Clan, Village and Manor (The Agrarian Organisation) -- 1 Agrarian Organisation and the Problem of Agrarian Communism -- 2 Appropriation and Verband - The Clan -- 3 The Economic Development of Seignoral Property -- 4 Internal Development of Manorial Rule -- 5 The Situation of the Peasantry in Various Occidental Countries before the Penetration of Capitalism -- 6 The Capitalistic Development of the Manor -- Part II: Industry and Mining before the Development of Capitalism -- 7 Principal Forms of Industrial Organization -- 8 Developmental Stages of Industry and Mining -- 9 Craft Guilds -- 10 The Emergence of Occidental Guilds -- 11 The Disintegration of the Guilds and the Development of the Domestic System -- 12 Workshop Production. The Factory and its Forerunners -- 13 Mining Prior to Capitalist Development -- Part III: Commerce in Goods and Money in the Precapitalist Era -- 14 The Origins and Development of Trade -- 15 Technical Preconditions for the Carriage of Goods -- 16 The Organizational Forms of Trade and Transport -- 17 Trading and Forms of Economic Enterprise -- 18 Merchant Guilds -- 19 Money and Monetary History -- 20 Money and Banking in the Precapitalist Era -- 21 Interest in the Precapitalist Period -- Part IV: The Emergence of Modern Capitalism -- 22 The Concept and Presuppositions of Capitalism -- 23 The External Features of Capitalist Development -- 24 The First Major Speculative Crises -- 25 Free Wholesale Trade -- 26 Colonial Policy from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century -- 27 The Development of Industrial Technology -- 28 Citizenship -- 29 The Rational State -- 30 The Conditions for Capitalist Development.

The final work of the great sociologist, economist, and political scientist starts with descriptions and analyses of the agrarian systems, and then explores manorial system, guilds, and early capitalism, organization of industry and mining, development of commerce, technical requisites for transporting goods, banking systems, evolution of capitalism and capitalistic spirit.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- PART ONE HOUSEHOLD, CLAN, VILLAGE AND MANOR -- CHAPTER I. AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATION AND THE PROBLEM OF AGRARIAN COMMUNISM -- CHAPTER II. PROPERTY SYSTEMS AND SOCIAL GROUPS -- CHAPTER III. The 0RIGIN OF SEIGNIORIAL PROPRIETORSHIP -- CHAPTER IV. THE MANOR -- CHAPTER V. THE POSITION OF THE PEASANTS IN VAEIOUS WESTERN COUNTRIES BEFORE THE ENTRANCE OF CAPITALISM -- CHAPTER VI CAPITALISTIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE MANOR -- PART TWO INDUSTRY AND MINING DOWN TO THE BEGINNING OF THE CAPITALISTIC DEVELOPMENT -- CHAPTER VII. PRINCIPAL FORMS OF THE ECONOMIC OR-GANIZATION OF INDUSTRY -- CHAPTER VIII. STAGES IN THE DEVELOPlllENT OF INDUSTRY AND MINING -- CHAPTER IX. THE CRAFT GUILDS -- CHAPTER X. THE ORIGIN OF THE EUROPEAN GUILDS -- CHAPTER XI. DISINTEGRATION OF THE GUILDS AND DEVEL- OPMENT OF THE DOMESTIC SYSTEM -- CHAPTER XII. SHOP PRODUCTION. THE FACTORY AND ITS FORE-RUNNERS -- CHAPTER XIII. MINING PRIOR TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN CAPITALISM -- PART THREE COMMERCE AND EXCHANGE IN THE PRE-CAPITALISTIC AGE -- CHAPTER XIV. POINTS OF DEPARTURE IN THE DEVELOP-MENT OF COMMERCE -- CHAPTER XV. TECHNICAL REQUISITES FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF GOODS -- CHAPTER XVI. FORMS OF ORGANIZATION OF TRANSPORTA- TION AND OF COMMERCE -- CHAPTER XVII. FORMS OF COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE -- CHAPTER XVIII. MERCANTILE GUILDS -- CHAPTER XIX MONEY AND MONETARY HISTORY -- CHAPTER XX. BANKING AND DEALINGS IN MONEY IN THE PRE-CAPITALISTIC AGE -- CHAPTER XXI. INTERESTS IN THE PRE-CAPITALISTIC PERIOD -- PART FOUR THE ORIGIN OF MODERN CAPITALISM -- CHAPTER XXII. THE MEANING AND PRESUPPOSITIONS OF MODERN CAPITALISM -- CHAPTER XXIII. THE ExTERNAL FACTS IN THE EVOLUTION OF CAPITALISM -- CHAPTER XXIV. THE FIRST GREAT SPECULATIVE CRISES -- CHAPTER XXV. FREE WHOLESALE TRADE