There are obviously 100s of books on this topic out there, I'm just asking historians which ones are best from a historical accuracy standpoint since y'all seem like you'd know better about that than I would.
These books are about the evolution of ideas rather than events. A classic written during those time is Adam Smith "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Theory of Moral Sentiment". For a more modern retrospective see Albert Hirschman "Passions and Interests: Arguments in Favor of Capitalism Before its Triumph", (highly recommended) which descibed how philosophers prior or early of the transition gave arguements of how capitalism would usher a more peaceful ages and the arguements of their critics throughout thw years. Though not a focal point, Mark Blyth, "Austerity, History of a Dangerous Idea", touched on it the origin of modern capitalism in Britain in the form of state bonds and the enclosure of the commons.
Peter Kriedte, Spätfeudalismus und Handelskapital, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht 1980.
It’s in German, but still a compelling argument on the economic processes that lead from various economic crises of the feudal system to more productive early capitalist endeavors. Kriedte‘s point basically is that various downsides of the feudal production system (eg incapacity to deal with fluctuations in availability of labor, marginal agrarian productivity of poorer soils etc) were eventually pushed against by mercantile enterprises that demanded more flexibility in order to reap trading profits. The various medieval agricultural crises (plagues, peasant uprisings, famines, crises of legitimacy of the feudal ruling classes) did their part to accelerate the process. I always thought it made a lot of sense (from a purely socio-economic pov).