Studies on Pre-Capitalist

Modes of Produktion

Edited by

Laura da Graca

Andrea Zingarelli

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BRILL

LEIDEN I BOSTON

Contents

Preface VII List of Contributors x

Introduction to Studies on Pre-Capitalist Modes of Production: Debates, Controversies and Lines of Argument 1

Laura da Graca and Andrea Zingarelli

1 Asiatic Mode of Production: Considerations on Ancient Egypt 27 Andrea Zingarelli

2 The Slave Roman Economy and the Plantation System 77 Carlos Garcia Mac Gaw

3 Origins of the Medieval Craftsman 112 Carlos Astarita

4 Passages to Feudalism in Medieval Scandinavia 141 Chris Wickham

5 Peasant Mode of Production and the Evolution of Clientelar Relations 158

Laura da Graca

6 Mode of Production, Social Action, and Historical Change: Some Questions and Issues 204

John Haidon

7 Simple Commodity Production and Value Theory in Late Feudalism 237

Octavio Colombo

References 269 Index 309