General Economic History

Considered one of the founders of modern sociology, German sociologist and historian MAX WEBER (1864-1920) long studied the impact of religion on culture-is most famous work is 1905's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism-but he was also renowned as a thinker on economic issues.
Here, in this classic collection of lectures first published in English in 1927 and translated by American economist Frank Hyneman Knight (1885-1972), Weber brings his keen and lively sociological eye to the history of commerce, money, and industrial endeavor, discussing:
. agricultural organization and the problem of agrarian communism
. the house community and the clan
. the evolution of the family as conditioned by economic factors
. the condition of the peasants before the entrance of capitalism
. capitalistic development of the manor
. stages in the development of industry and mining
. the origin of the European guilds
. the factory and its forerunners
. forms of organization of transportation and commerce
. money and monetary history
. the meaning of modern capitalism
. the first great speculative crisis
. citizenship as an economic concept
. the evolution of the capitalistic spirit
. and much more.