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Kinship and Capitalism - Marriage, Family, and Business in the English-Speaking World, 1580-1740 (Paperback, New ed)
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Kinship and Capitalism - Marriage, Family, and Business in the English-Speaking World, 1580-1740 (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
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This uncompromisingly empirical study reconstructs the public and
private lives of urban business families during the period of
England's emergence as a world economic power. Using a broad
cross-section of archival, rather than literary, sources, it tests
the orthodox view that the family as an institution was transformed
by capitalism and individualism. The approach is both quantitative
and qualitative. A database of 28,000 families has been constructed
to tackle questions such as demographic structure, kinship and
inheritance, which must be answered statistically. Much of the
book, however, focuses on issues such as courtship and relations
among spouses, parents and children, which can only be studied
through those families that have left intimate records. The overall
conclusion is that none of the abstract models invented to explain
the historical development of the family withstand empirical
scrutiny and that familial capitalism, not possessive
individualism, was the motor of economic growth.
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