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The object of this study is theoretical rather than historical or narrative; it proposes an analysis of arguments, not a reconstruction of events. But to appraise the logic of historical arguments we must know something of the relationships between events. Hence we shall first examine an outline of what happened, and then schematize that outline in a way which will set in relief the temporal development of the principal relationships we shall need to examine. We will then consider three arguments which purport to account for these developments, and from the rejection of these arguments we shall advance a new theory, developed further in the next two chapters.
* History and Theory, 6 (1967). In revising this study I have been much helped, in very various ways, by comments from W.J. Barber, R.L. Benson, M. Dobb, J. Herbst, P. Kilby, S. Lebergott, W. Mudd, O. Nell, N. Rudich, P.M. Sweezy, and R. Vann. I am grateful to all of them.
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Nell, E.J. (1992). Economic Relationships in the Decline of Feudalism: an Examination of Economic Interdependence and Social Change. In: Transformational Growth and Effective Demand. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21779-3_12
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