Structure and Transformation — Faruk Birtek

This book is about constructing a theory of historical change It develops a methodology for comparative historical sociology As much as the god loving hard working entrepreneurial penny pinching in short expansive impulse of the yeomen it was the lack of resilience of society the so called feudal society that led to the enclosures the parliament and eventual pluralism in England In contrast the French village was strongly shaped by the feudal relations which secured the peasant resilience in the face of the commercial impulses of the new capitalistic classes The state could play the major roles in the opening new societal avenues and remedying the stillness of the new economic classes in the countryside Our model suggests that the transitional stage in a process of trans