From Feudalism to Capitalism: Historical Materialism

Carlos Astarita is a professor at the universities of Buenos Aires and La Plata. He has been Associate Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), and has given conferences and seminars at universities in Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Italy and England.

Introduction
1 The Studies Included in This Volume
2 From Feudalism to Capitalism
3 On Method
4 On Exposition
5 On the Past and the Present
1 The Commoner Knights
1 Introduction
2 Hypothesis
3 Economically Free Property
4 Small and Middling Property
5 Labour Relations in Direct Exploitation
6 The Problem of Jurisdiction and Complementary Benefits
7 Ranch Exploitation and Productive Space
8 The Regime of Simple Commodity Production
9 The Exceptions to the Rule
10 Conclusions
2 Categories of the State
1 The Modern Capitalist State
2 The Question of the Origins of the Modern State
3 The Feudal State
1 Posing the Problem
2 Objections to Perry Anderson's Thesis, when Applied to Castile
3 Regional and Historical Differentiation
4 Social and Political Bloc
5 The caballeria villana and Social Status
6 The Relative Independence of the State
7 The Dynamic of the Constitution of the Ruling Social Bloc
8 The Lack of any Single Model of Centralisation
9 Conclusions
4 The Procuradores Pecheros
1 Introduction
2 The Role of the Taxpayer Elite
3 Tributary Elites' Role in Systemic Conflicts
4 Aspects of Taxpayers' Social Organisation
5 The Taxpayer Elite as a Translation of Social Realities
6 Conclusion
5 Rural Domestic Industry
1 The Feudal Dynamic and Proletarianisation
2 The Textile Lord
3 Coexistence between Feudalism and Rural Industry
4 Understanding the Totality
6 Class Consciousness
1 Introduction
2 Practical Evidence
3 The Theory of Class Consciousness
4 The Problem of Consent
5 The Theoretical Problem of Reproductive Behaviour
6 Final Considerations
7 Asymmetrical Trade in the Feudal System and in the Early Transition to Capitalism
1 Trade in the Feudal System
2 Trade in the Early Transition to Capitalism
8 Sicily, Tuscany, Castile
1 Introduction
2 The Model Inherited
3 Feudal Exchange
4 The Conditions of the Birth of the Putting-Out System, According to Epstein
5 The Origin of the Putting-Out System in Castile
6 Historical and Conceptual Differences
7 Unequal Exchange in the Early Transition to Capitalism
Bibliography
Index