ABSTRACT

This paper argues that early agrarian capitalism in England was followed not by an individualist culture of monetary gain, but rather by a complex mixture of cultural norms stressing profit as well as different forms of community. It examines a popular agricultural manual written by the author Thomas Tusser (1524–1580). The paper shows that through his household management and farming advice, Tusser responded to the challenges resulting from agrarian capitalism not by discarding cultural norms of mutuality and cooperation, but by subtly reinventing them in ways that clashed with the language mobilised by the contemporary agrarian complaint movement.

摘要

本文认为，英国早期的农业资本主义所遵循的不是追求金钱收益的个人主义文化，而是强调利润和不同形式社区的文化规范的复杂混合。它考察了作者 Thomas Tusser (1524–1580) 所写的一本广受欢迎的农业手册。这篇论文表明，通过他的家庭管理和农业建议，图瑟对农业资本主义带来的挑战做出了回应，不是通过抛弃相互合作的文化规范，而是以与当代农业投诉运动所动员的语言相冲突的方式巧妙地重新创造这些规范。 .