Re: Re: Max Weber's Genteel Racism (was Re: weber)

[Louis Proyect]

>I would love to hear from an expert on this subject to see how valid or 
>invalid my speculations are.
>
>Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

You should read the article by Jaime Torras in the Fall 1980 Review of the
Braudel Center. It is a reply to Brenner, who argued in Past and Present
that Catalonia had the same class relations as England in the 15th through
17th century and therefore enjoyed a kind of prosperity. Torras agrees that
the class relations were similar but disagrees that Catalonia prospered.
You should also check the very latest scholarship on Spain in this period,
edited by I.A.A. Thompson and Bartolomé Yun Casalilla and titled "The
Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century."

Louis Proyect
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