GEOG 3050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Werner Sombart, Friedrich Engels, Robert Brenner
19 Jan 2017
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The global urban transition in historical perspective: earliest cities. The earliest cities emerged 600 years ago in mesopotamia. Disagreement on whether urban centers were a response to the innovations of agriculture or whether they predate and provided the impetus for these innovations. Marxist ideas: cities and world history. Dynamic tension between urban based merchant classes and feudal princes that culminated in the formation of nation-states. Crafts, the arts of war, the cultivation of philosophy and activities related to trade. People believe elites and intellectuals live in the city. Non-agriculture sector: terrain of economic history and political economy. In medieval europe the relationship between urban-based capital and rural-based: noted 18th, 19th, 20thand contemporary scholar writing on the origins of urban capitalism. Karl marx, max weber, werner sombart, friedrich engels. Marx and engels were pioneers in their study of urban life. Ucla historian, robert brenner in the contemporary period.
