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People and Things: Power in Early English Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Kathleen Biddick
Kathleen Biddick
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University of Notre Dame
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Debate over the rise of agrarian capitalism in Europe has established the historiographic chronology, locus, and conceptualization of European development. Proponents of contending schools (the “commercial” or the “political”) have focused on the late medieval through early modern period in England as the crucial time and place of the transformation but argue whether agrarian capitalism derived from economic or political structures (Ashton and Philpin 1985).' Neither school has questioned the common methodology of mapping social and cultural transformation onto a structural matrix. Steps taken by historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists to decenter the European narrative of development have faltered at this same structuralist dilemma.

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The Archaeology of Power
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 3 - 23
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1990

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