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Foundations of Political Economy Some Early Tudor Views on State and Society 1st Edition

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Foundations of Political Economy Some Early Tudor Views on State and Society 1st Edition

Author(s)

Neal Wood

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9780520913448, 9780520081451

Publisher

University of California Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Conventional wisdom claims that the seventeenth century gave birth to the material and ideological forces that culminated in the Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalism. Not true, according to Neal Wood, who argues that much earlier reformers—Dudley, Starkey, Brinklow, Latimer, Crowley, Becon, Lever, and Thomas Smith, as well as the better-known More and Fortescue—laid the groundwork by fashioning an economic conception of the state in response to social, economic and political conditions of England. Wood’s innovative study of these early Tudor thinkers, who upheld the status quo yet condemned widespread poverty and suffering, will interest historians, political scientists, and social and political theorists.