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Guilds, innovation, and the European economy, 1400-1800

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Guilds, innovation, and the European economy, 1400-1800 / edited by S.R. Epstein, Maarten Prak.

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Epstein, Stephan R., 1960-

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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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Prak, Maarten Roy, 1955-

Description

viii, 352 p. : map; 24 cm.

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Includes index.

Contents

Introduction : Guilds, innovation, and the European economy, 1400-1800 / S.R. Epstein and Maarten Prak -- Craft guilds, the theory of the firm, and early modern proto-industry / Ulrich Pfister -- Craft guilds, apprenticeship and technological change in pre-industrial Europe / S.R. Epstein -- Subcontracting in guild-based export trades, thirteenth-eighteenth centuries / Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly -- Circulation of skilled labour in late medieval and early modern Central Europe / Reinhold Reith -- Painters, guilds and the art market during the Dutch Golden Age / Maarten Prak -- Craft guilds and technological change : the engine loom in the European silk ribbon industry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Ulrich Pfister -- Guilds, technology and economic change in early modern Venice / Francesca Trivellato -- Inventing in a world of guilds : silk fabrics in eighteenth-century Lyon / Liliane Hilaire-Pérez -- 'Not to hurt of trade' : guilds and innovation in horology and precision instrument making / Anthony Turner -- Reaching beyond the city wall : London guilds and national regulation, 1500-1700 / Ian Anders Gadd and Patrick Wallis -- Guilds in decline? London livery companies and the rise of a liberal economy, 1600-1800 / Michael Berlin.

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