Herbert Kisch. From Domestic Manufacture to Industrial Revolution. The Case of the Rhineland Textile Districts.
Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
350 páginas.
CONTENTS
Prologue: Herbert Kisch, the Man and His Work / Richard Tilly
1 – Introductory Comments
Why Study Rhenish Economic History?
The Textile Trades: An Engine of Protoindustrialization
Methodological Excuses
2 – Variations upon an Eighteenth-Century Theme: Prussian Mercantilism and the Rise of the Krefeld Silk Industry
Enlightenment Limited: The Plan That Failed
From Persecution to Profit
Tight Little Families
Ambience for Success
Apologia Borussica
3 – From Monopoly to Laissez-Faire: The Early Growth of the Wupper Valley Textile Trades
A “Frontier” in Medieval Days
Rural Industrialization: The Toddler Stage
Primitive Accumulation Succeeds
Early Eighteenth-Century Progress
Halcyon Days of l’Ancien Régime
Social Consequences
4 – Growth Deterrents of a Medieval Heritage: The Aachen Area Woolen Trades Before 1790
The Rise and Decline of Guild Industry
Religious Strife: Symptom of Corporate Stagnation
Rural Dynamic: The Expansion of Domestic Manufacture
Capitalism Comes to Town
5 – The Impact of the French Revolution on the Lower Rhine Textile Districts
The Setting War, Occupation, and Inflation
The Profits of Collaboration
The End of an Era
Outlook
6 – Concluding Reflections
Epilogue / Richard Tilly