Myron P. Gutmann: Toward the Modern Economy

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A social history of the pre-industrial revolution in early modern Europe<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877225478&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="579_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Toward the Modern Economy</h1> <H2>Early Industry in Europe, 1500-1800</H2> <h3>Myron P. Gutmann</h3> <P>cloth 0-87722-547-8 $37.95, Feb 88, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Print</FONT> <BR> 280 pp </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"Gutmann�s ambitious effort expands the terrain on which the battles over the �industrial revolution� are fought."</I> <br>&#151<b>Jan de Vries</b>, University of California, Berkeley<I></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>This social history of the pre-industrial revolution in early modern Europe emphasizes the interrelatedness of social, economic, and demographic change and demonstrates that there was a logic of industrial change that made the introduction of factories a likely outcome of earlier developments. Myron P. Gutmann traces the history of industry from the guild-dominated medieval urban organizations to their replacement by rural cottage industry and then, at the end of the eighteenth century, to the construction of factories. <p>Unlike most studies of this period, which focus on industrialization in England, <I>Toward the Modern Economy</I> examines all of Europe. Using primary documents and detailed case studies of the Low Countries, especially Belgium, Gutmann shows how major economic changes, such as the development of large-scale cottage industry, were accompanied by equally fundamental social changes. He describes how industrial change created a new society, one that was a hybrid between the peasantry and the urban proletariat. <p>Linking economic, social, and demographic developments, this history of the pre-industrial revolution provides a new context within which to understand the growth of mechanized industry. <BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><b>Myron P. Gutmann</b> is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin and the author of <I>War and Rural Life in the Early Modern Low Countries</I>.</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/history.html" TARGET="_top">History</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/labor.html" TARGET="_top">Labor Studies and Work</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877225478&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. All Rights Reserved. http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/579_reg.html</font></p>