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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Stages in the Social History of Capitalism, by Henri Pirenne This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Stages in the Social History of Capitalism An Address Delivered at the International Congress of Historical Studies, London, April, 1913 Author: Henri Pirenne Release Date: May 4, 2010 [eBook #32252] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STAGES IN THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF CAPITALISM*** E-text prepared by Fritz Ohrenschall, Martin Pettit, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original page images. See 32252-h.htm or 32252-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32252/32252-h/32252-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32252/32252-h.zip) THE STAGES IN THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF CAPITALISM[1] by HENRI PIRENNE In the pages that follow I wish only to develop a hypothesis. Perhaps after having read them, the reader will find the evidence insufficient. I do not hesitate to recognize that the scarcity of special studies bearing upon my subject, at least for the period since the end of the Middle Ages, is of a nature to discourage more than one cautious spirit. But, on the one hand, I am convinced that every effort at synthesis, however premature it may seem, cannot fail to react usefully on investigations, provided one offers it in all frankness for what it is. And, on the other hand, the kind reception which the ideas here presented received at the International Congress of Historical Studies held at London last April, and the desire which has been expressed to me by scholars of widely differing tendencies to see them in print, have induced me to publish them. Various objections which have been expressed to me, as well as my own subsequent reflections, have caused me to revise and complete on certain points my London address. In the essential features, however, nothing has been changed. A word first of all to indicate clearly the point of view which characterizes the study. I shall
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