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Kinship and Capitalism: Marriage, Family, and Business in the English-Speaking World, 1580-1740 (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Kinship and Capitalism Marriage Family and Business in the EnglishSpeaking World 15801740 - Woodrow Wilson Center Press Author:Richard Grassby This uncompromisingly empirical study reconstructs the public and private lives of urban business families during the period of England's emergence as a world economic power. Using a broad cross-section of archival, rather than literary, sources, it tests the orthodox view that the family as an institution was transformed by capitalism and indiv... more »idualism. The overall conclusion is that none of the abstract models invented to explain the historical development of the family withstand empirical scrutiny and that familial capitalism, not possessive individualism, was the motor of economic growth.« less