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OverviewSilver mining was a capitalist business long before the supposed origin of modern capitalism Hundreds of years before a sixteenth–century crisis in European agriculture led to the origins of capital, investment, and finance, the silver mining industry exhibited many of the features of modern capitalism. Silver mines were large–scale businesses that demanded large investments and steady cash flow, achieved by spreading that risk through fungible shares and creating legal structures to protect entrepreneurs from financial disaster. Jeannette Graulau argues that mining preceded agriculture as the first true capitalist enterprise of the modern world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jeannette GraulauPublisher: Yale University Press Imprint: Yale University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9780300218220ISBN 10: 0300218222 Pages: 392 Publication Date: 26 November 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsJeannette Graulau shows how mining was an important locus of the emergence and evolution of economic and political institutions that have come to be understood as capitalist. Mining was not just a feudal backwater, but a dynamic sector in which bankers were able to organize corporations that eventually played a central role in the emergence of modern nation-states. -Christopher Chase-Dunn, University of California, Riverside A meticulous excavation of capitalist silver mining in feudal Europe. An original contribution to the study of early modern capitalism and the origins of the specie. -Robert Schaeffer, California Polytechnic State University Author InformationJeannette Graulau is associate professor of political science at Herbert H. Lehman College, The City University of New York. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |