Tawney, _The Rise of the Gentry_
Paul Phillips,
Economics,
University of Manitoba
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> So, are we saying that the main source of personnel for the bourgeois class as it
>rises up out of feudalism and starts to make capitalism is the feudal ruling class of
>lords ? And that it was not so much the personnel of the small fry bourgeoisie from
>the feudal period ? Or that M-C-M' ing was
first built up big by the rural feudal lords now become rural bourgeoisie before the
old town merchants and money lenders ? That is counterintuitive. Why would the rich
class from the previous era be the main ones to try the new style of wealth
accumulation, when at the time the success of the
new style, capitalism, over the old style would not have seemed likely ? There is
abundant evidence from the following couple of hundred years that many feudal ruling
class members continued to live in the feudal manner of exploiting their wealth,
because the bourgeois had a long struggle with
them to become the new ruling class. The bourgeoisie had not yet at all become the
ruling class in the 140!
> 0's and 1500's.
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