The Widening Gate Bristol and the Atlantic Economy 1450 1700 1st edition by David Harris Sacks 052091452X 9780520914520

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ISBN 10: 052091452X
ISBN 13: 9780520914520
Author: David Harris Sacks

The history of capitalism is not to be explained in mere economic terms. David Harris Sacks here demonstrates that the modern Western economy was ushered in by  broad processes of social, political, and cultural change. His study of Bristol as it opened it gate to national politics and the Atlantic economy reveals capitalism to be not just a species of economic order but a distinct form of life, governed by its own ethical norms and cultural practices. Availing himself of the methods of “thick description,” socio-economic analysis, and political theory, Sacks examines the dynamics by which early modern Bristol moved from a medieval commercial economy to an early capitalist one. Throughout the period, the life of the city depended heavily on the successes of its great overseas merchants. But their quest for a monopoly of trade with the outside world, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Levant, came into conflict with the concerns of Bristol’s artisans and retail shopkeepers. The battles of the two factions conditioned social and cultural developments in Bristol for two centuries. Locally, the conflict set the terms for developing conceptions of justice and authority. On a larger scale, it drew the community firmly into the great affairs of the realm and the wider world of expanding markets beyond. 

The Widening Gate Bristol and the Atlantic Economy 1450 1700 Table of contents:

PART I Opening the Way
CHAPTER 1 Feats of Merchandise
CHAPTER 2 Mere Merchants
CHAPTER 3 Organizing the Society
PART 2 In a Worshipful State
CHAPTER 4 The Navel of the World
CHAPTER 5 The Sanctification of Power
CHAPTER 6 Little Businesses
CHAPTER 7 Looking Backward
CHAPTER 8 A Shoemakers’ Holiday
CHAPTER 9 Registering the Pilgrimage
CHAPTER 10 The Spirit World

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