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In the vast array of studies concerned with the transition from feudalism to capitalism in early modern Europe two divergent and conflicting strands of interpretation have traditionally dominated research: the one which locates the mainsprings of economic development in towns as centres of mercantile enterprise, the other which regards the rural economy as the cradle of agrarian capitalism and proto-manufacturing from which a fully-fledged industrial revolution finally emerged.
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Walter Christaller, Central Places in Southern Germany (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1966).
Gilbert Rozman, ‘Urban Networks and Historical Stages’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, IX (1978), pp. 65–91.
Peter Kriedte, Hans Medick, and Jürgen Schlumbohm, Industrialization before Industrialization. Rural Industry in the Genesis of Capitalism (Cambridge/Paris, 1981), pp. 24.
J. C. Russell, Medieval Regions and their Cities (Studies in Historical Geography) (Newton Abbot, 1972), p. 91f.
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Scott, T. (1987). Economic Conflict and Co-operation on the Upper Rhine, 1450–1600. In: Kouri, E.I., Scott, T. (eds) Politics and Society in Reformation Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18814-7_10
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