General Economic History

Considered one of the founders of modern sociology, German sociologist and historian MAX WEBER (1864-1920) long studied the impact of religion on culture-is most famous work is 1905's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism-but he was also renowned as a thinker on economic issues. Here, in this classic collection of lectures first published in English in 1927 and translated by American economist Frank Hyneman Knight (1885-1972), Weber brings his keen and lively sociological eye to the history of commerce, money, and industrial endeavor, discussing:. agricultural organization and the problem of agrarian communism. the house community and the clan. the evolution of the family as conditioned by economic factors. the condition of the peasants before the entrance of capitalism. capitalistic development of the manor. stages in the development of industry and mining. the origin of the European guilds. the factory and its forerunners. forms of organization of transportation and commerce. money and monetary history. the meaning of modern capitalism. the first great speculative crisis. citizenship as an economic concept. the evolution of the capitalistic spirit. and much more.