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Abstract
Industrialisierung vor der Industrialisierung. Gewerbliche Waren‐produktion auf dem Land in der Formationsperiode des Kapitalismus, by Peter Kriedte, Hans Medick and Jürgen Schlumbohm, with contributions by Herbert Kisch and Franklin F. Mendels. (Veröffent‐lichungen des Max‐Planck‐Instituts für Geschichte no. 53.) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1977 and 1978. Pp. 393. Cloth: Dm 56.00, paper: DM 22.00.
Die Bauernbefreiung in Deutschland 1790–1850, by Christof Dipper. (Urban Paperbacks, vol. 298.) Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1980. Pp. 215. DM 16.00 (paper).
In this review article two recent publications dealing with aspects of the transition from feudalism to capitalism are considered. In the first part of the article, a work describing the nature and the process of proto‐industrialisation in Europe is examined. This contribution is detailed and comprehensive (almost ‘encyclopaedic') but fails to provide a satisfactory theoretical framework. In the second part of the article we look at a survey of the emancipation of the peasantry in Germany. The authors of both works emphasise demographic growth and increasing pauperisation as important factors of the complex process of modernisation.
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School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
