The Sixteenth-Century Expansion

Andre Gunder Frank

Chapter Chapter 1 in World Accumulation 1492–1789, 1978, pp 25-64 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Hominid beginnings may go back some 15 million years; and according to recent work in Africa the earliest evidence of humanlike creatures dates from about three and a half million years ago. By the fifteenth century, humans numbered perhaps some 500 million, organized by a large variety of modes of production, cultures, and civilizations. These codetermined the socioeconomic formations that would emerge and are still emerging from capitalist transformation, and indeed they helped to determine at which historical time each would enjoy or suffer that transformation.

Keywords: Real Wage; Capital Accumulation; Seventeenth Century; Sixteenth Century; Thirteenth Century (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1978
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-15998-7_1

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