Capitalists in Spite of Themselves, Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
2000
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loginSOMETHING HAPPENED IN WESTERN UROPEin the fifteenth through eight-eenth centuries. Sociology’s founders believed the task for their disciplinewas to define that something and to explain why it happened when and where it did.Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim each dedicated their intellectual livesto that project. Over the past century sociologists and scholars in related fields havediffered, and have defined themselves, in their identification of the salient features ofthe European transformation.