By B W Higman, Carl Campbell, Patrick Bryan
This choice of essays by means of extraordinary students all started as a chain of lectures subsidized by means of the dept of background, college of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, to honour the world over well-known Caribbean historian Elsa Goveia. the gathering contains 13 lectures brought among 1987 and 1998. The ebook is split into large sections: Slavery and Freedom, which gains severe learn on slavery and post-emancipation society, and Gender. a lot of those seminal works at the moment are broadly to be had for the 1st time to the massive variety of members attracted to Caribbean historical past and gender experiences.
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34. 35. 36. 37. 38. Slavery, Freedom and Gender This is the basis for the recent controversy on the historical origin of the contemporary problems of the British economy, centred on the nature of its development of capitalism. Some argue that, being the first capitalist economy, its development of capitalism was incomplete, and the remnants of precapitalist elements are responsible for its poor performance in contemporary times relative to economies that developed capitalism later. The opposite is also argued, that because Britain was the first capitalist nation, it developed capitalism to an extreme level relative to later capitalist nations, thereby weakening the non-capitalist elements (such as long-term focused government intervention) which enable the later comers to more effectively control the exclusively short-term considerations that characterize pure capitalism.
But he does not support a supply argument as such; he does not see the Slavery and the Rise of Capitalism 21 autonomous development of technology as the main source of British industrialization during the period in question. A careful reading of his arguments would suggest that he sees demand arising from the growth of trade as a critical factor, but not the prime mover. For Brenner, the prime mover was "class struggle". Insofar as demand was important, it came largely from agriculture; British industrialization had its origin in British agriculture.
Williamson, "Revising England's Social Tables, 1688-1812", Explorations in Economic History 19 (1982): 385^08. E. Mingay, Enclosure and the Small Farmer in the Age of the Industrial Revolution (London: Macmillan, 1968), 29. As late as 1831 there were still numerous self-employed producers in British agriculture. The census of that year shows that out of a total of 961,100 families employed in agriculture, 275,100 were self-employed and 686,000 were wage-earning families. See Clapham, "Growth of an Agrarian Proletariat", 93; also Levine, "Production", 112.