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Richard Lachmann's work offers a new explanation for the origins of nation-states and capitalist markets in early modern Europe. Comparing regions and cities within and across England, France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries, Lachmann shows how conflict among feudal elites-landlords, clerics, kings and officeholders-transformed the...(展開全部) Richard Lachmann's work offers a new explanation for the origins of nation-states and capitalist markets in early modern Europe. Comparing regions and cities within and across England, France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries, Lachmann shows how conflict among feudal elites-landlords, clerics, kings and officeholders-transformed the bases of their control over land and labor, forcing the winners of feudal conflicts to become capitalists in spite of themselves as they took defensive actions to protect their privileges from rivals in the aftermath of the Reformation. 理察·拉克曼(Richard Lachmann),紐約州立大學奧爾巴尼分校(SUNY-Albany)社會學系教授,早年畢業於哈佛大學。主要研究領域為政治社會學和歷史比較社會學,是北美比較歷史研究領域的重要人物,20世紀90年代借“精英鬥爭理論”成名,對查爾斯·蒂利、麥可·曼等大家的理論作出重要補充和修正。本書是他的代表性著作,曾獲美國社會學協會2003年度傑出學術著作獎和2002年巴靈頓·摩爾最佳圖書獎。此外,他的著作還包括From Manor to Market:Structural Change in England(1536-1640),States and Power等。