Sociologist, historian and political economist, Max Weber is one of the most important thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His astonishing range and penetrating insights resulted in many influential books spanning religion, society, politics, and economics, permanently affecting the direction of the social sciences.
General Economic History
, published in 1923 (three years after Weber's death) and compiled from meticulous notes taken by his students, ranks as one of his most important books. It is a landmark work in economic history. From early forms of exchange in pre-capitalist households and villages, through industry and the beginnings of commerce, to the evolution of trade and money, Weber tells the epic story of the development of Western capitalism. At its heart, he argues, capitalism is driven by two immensely powerful forces: the basic, material needs that human beings seek to fulfil; and the fundamental but intangible spirit that sets capitalism in motion.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Introduction and, for the first time in English, a translation of Weber’s original "Conceptual Preface" to the German edition, both by Keith Tribe. Also included are some corrections to the main text.
One of Weber's most important books and is a landmark work in the history of economic thought. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Introduction and a translation of Weber’s original ‘Conceptual Preface’ to the German edition, both by Keith Tribe. Also included are some corrections to the main text.
Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition Keith Tribe Conceptual
Preface Part 1: Household, Clan, Village and Manor
1. Agricultural
Organization and the problem of Agrarian Communism
2. Property Systems and
Social Groups
3. The Origin of Seigniorial Proprietorship
4. The Manor
5. The
Position of the Peasants in Various Western Countries Before the Entrance of
Capitalism
6. Capitalistic Development of the Manor Part 2: Industry and
Mining Down to the Beginning of the Capitalistic Development
7. Principal
Forms of the Economic Organization of Industry
8. Stages in the Development
of Industry and Mining
9. The Craft Guilds
10. The Origin of the European
Guilds
11. Disintegration of the Guilds and Development of the Domestic
System
12. Shop Production. The Factory and its Fore-Runners
13. Mining Prior
to the Development of Modern Capitalism Part 3: Commerce and Exchange in the
Pre-Capitalistic Age
14. Points of Departure in the Development of Commerce
15. Technical Requisites for the Transportation of Goods
16. Forms of
Organization of Transportation and of Commerce
17. Forms of Commercial
Enterprise
18. Mercantile Guilds
19. Money and Monetary History
20. Banking
and Dealings in Money in the Pre-Capitalistic Age
21. Interests in the
Pre-Capitalistic Period Part 4: The Origin of Modern Capitalism
22. The
Meaning and Presuppositions of Modern Capitalism
23. The External Facts in
the Evolution of Capitalism
24. The First Great Speculative Crises
25. Free
Wholesale Trade
26. Colonial Policy from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth
Century
27. The Development of Industrial Technique
28. Citizenship
29. The
Rational State
30. The Evolution of the Capitalistic Spirit. Index
Max Weber (18641920) has had a major influence on the development of the social sciences and humanities, and is today widely regarded as a leading analyst of modernity. His father was a National Liberal politician in Berlin, the family of his mother were in the textile business. This latter connection enabled him to resign his Professorship at Heidelberg in 1903 and live as an independent scholar until 1919, when he was appointed to a chair in Munich. A figure of national significance even before he was appointed to a chair in political economy and finance in Freiburg in 1894, his extensive contributions to newspapers and journals, speeches on politics and scholarship, and editorial work is only now being fully appreciated. Even his most famous book, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (also available in Routledge Classics), was originally two linked essays published in the journal he edited with Werner Sombart and Edgar Jaffé in 19041905. His public lecture "Politics as a Vocation," given in Munich in early 1919, remains a landmark statement of party politics and the demands of modern political life.
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