Studies in the development of capitalism / by Maurice Dobb, M.A. ; lecturer in economics in the University of Cambridge.

Chapter one: Capitalism -- Chapter two: The decline of feudalism -- Chapter three: The beginnings of the bourgeoise -- Chapter four: The rise of industrial capital -- Chapter five: Capital accumulation and mercantilism -- Chapter six: Growth of the proletariat -- Chapter seven: The industrial revolution -- Chapter eight: The period between the two wars and its sequel.

"A work of this kind, which is concerned with generalizing about historical development pm the basis of material already collected and arranged by other hands, runs a grave danger of falling between two stools, and of displeasing both the economist, who often has little time for history, and the historian, who may dismiss it as insufficiently grounded in the first-hand knowledge that comes from actual field work. To the economist the author may appear as an irrelevant wanderer from his proper territory, and to the historian as an intruding amateur. Of this danger and of his own imperfect equipment for the task the author has, at least, not been unaware, -- preface.