The Pristine Culture of Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States

absolutist agrarian capitalism agricultural ancien régime antiquity argument aristocracy bourgeois paradigm bourgeois revolution bourgeoisie Britain British capitalism capitalist development capitalist economy centralization Chartism civil society Clark classical commercial common law competitive conception conflict consent Continental contrast corporate culture David McNally decline democracy democratic distinctive doctrines dominant E.P. Thompson early economic eighteenth century England English capitalism English Civil War English history English individualism Europe European example extra-economic feudal France French historians Ibid idea ideology John Locke jurisdiction labour land landlords less lism Locke Locke's logic London lords Macfarlane Macfarlane's Martin Wiener Marxist modern monarchy Nairn Nairn-Anderson Parliamentary particular patriarchal peasants Perry Anderson political economy Political Thought politically constituted property popular sovereignty pre-capitalist pre-modern principles privilege production property relations radical represented republicanism revolutionary Rodney Hilton royal absolutism ruling class rural social change social relations specific theory tion Tom Nairn tradition transformation unity urban Whig