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Money and Liberty in Modern Europe: A Critique of Historical Understanding

By William M. Reddy

Book information

Year
1987
ISBN
0521315093, 9780511572555, 9780521304450, 9780521315098
LCC
HG922 .R43 1987
Open Library ID
OL2718457M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (6928194 bytes)
Pages
280\276
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The concept of class, along with its correlates -m class interest, class conflict, class consciousness - ramain indispensable tools of historical explanation. Yet research over the last twenty-five years, especially on the histories of England, France, and Germany, has revealed an increasingly poor fit between these concepts and the reality they purport to explain. Some historians have reacted by rejecting class; others have proposed bold revisions in our understanding of it that enable it to encompass new research findings. This study does neither. Instead, building on interpretive method Professor Reddy proposes to replace class with an alternative concept that seeks to capture from a new angle the fundamental relations of exchange and authority that have shaped social life in modern Europe.

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