Details

Subject(s)

• Economic history [Browse]

Writer of introduction

• Tribe, Keith [Browse]

Translator

• Tribe, Keith [Browse]

Series

Routledge classics [More in this series]

Summary note

Sociologist, historian and political economist, Max Weber is one of the most important thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His astonishing range and penetrating insights resulted in many influential books spanning religion, society, politics, and economics, permanently affecting the direction of the social sciences. General Economic History, published in 1923 (three years after Weber's death) and compiled from meticulous notes taken by his students, ranks as one of his most important books. It is a landmark work in economic history. From early forms of exchange in pre-capitalist households and villages, through industry and the beginnings of commerce, to the evolution of trade and money, Weber tells the epic story of the development of Western capitalism. At its heart, he argues, capitalism is driven by two immensely powerful forces: the basic, material needs that human beings seek to fulfil; and the fundamental but intangible spirit that sets capitalism in motion. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Introduction and, for the first time in English, a translation of Weber's original "Conceptual Preface" to the German edition, both by Keith Tribe. Also included are some corrections to the main text.

Notes

Includes index.

Language note

Some text translated from the German.

Contents

• Introduction to the Routledge Classics edition
• Conceptual preface
• Part I. Household, clan, village and manor (The Agrarian organisation)
• Part II. Industry and mining before the development of capitalism
• Part III. Commerce in goods and money in the Precapitalist Era
• Part IV. THe Emergence of Modern Capitalism.

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ISBN

• 9781032533988 (hardback)
• 1032533986 (hardcover)
• 9781032533971 (paperback)
• 1032533978 (paperback)

OCLC

1400089884

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