Christopher Clark
Birth date: March 14, 1960
Christopher Clark's Books
bookshelves: summer-2014, published-2014, radio-4, war, wwi, politics, nonfiction, fradio, balkan-root Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from June 20 to 27, 2014 BOTWhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03th7pnDescription: Professor Christopher Clark unpicks the complex sequence of events dur...
Well I'm relieved I finally finished reading this. Despite a very interesting & good writing, it's still a heavy weight book to go through, especially for new German history reader. Midway I realized that I could've help myself more by making notes on the peopple & time frame, etc. But then perhaps ...
Clark’s account of the transition from a “subsistence-surplus” economy to “rural capitalism” in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts is built around his observation that it was not an ideological shift that prompted this change, but “the search for livelihoods and security.” A balanced intro...
An overview of the “market revolution” period Clark described in detail in western Massachusetts in The Roots of Rural Capitalism. Clark outlines six areas he thinks hold the most interest: families and households, work and labor, new social structures and elites that emerge “from the interactions ...
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