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Tedesco Paolo
Writings on the Tributary State and Commercial Capitalism
These sixteen essays present a systematic and informed discussion of the literature researching the economic trajectories of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. The thrust of Tedesco’s argument in this collection is to reaffirm the presence of economic complexity in the pre-industrial world. His principal ambition is to show how early medieval societies functioned at a given time while contesting the narrative that history has been flowing in a specific direction, towards modernity and capitalism.
L'Autore
Paolo Tedesco is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Tübingen. His research includes the social and economic history of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, the fates of the peasantry across different types of society, and the long history of capitalism. Tedesco writes for Jacobin and other outlets in the US, Latin America, Italy, Germany, France and elsewhere. He holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Vienna.
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