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Martha C. Howell, "Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600″ (Cambridge UP, 2010)
When I was an undergraduate, I was taught that merchants in early modern Western Europe were "proto-capitalists." I was never quite sure what that meant. If it meant they traded property for money, yes. But that would make everyone who…