The Personal Wealth of the Business Community in Seventeenth-century England
Author: Richard Grassby
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 15
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The Business Community of Seventeenth-Century England
Author: Richard Grassby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-11-07
Total Pages: 654
ISBN-13: 9780521890861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive study of the business community in a pre-industrial economy.
The Idea of Property in Seventeenth-century England
Author: Laura Brace
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780719051791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRegarded by contemporaries as the chief dispute of our times, tithes were the subject of intense controversy in the 1650s. Ministers, reformers, radicals and sectarians all went into print to defend or destroy the clergy's right to a tenth of the produce of the land. Tithes pushed the limits of private property, and both their opponents and their defenders recognized their significance for ownership, the law, liberty and individuality.
Historiography: Foundations
Author: Robert M. Burns
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780415320788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection aims to enable the reader to disentangle some of the ambiguities and confusions which have characterized the use of the term 'historiography'.
A Wealth of Buildings: Marking the Rhythm of English History
Author: Richard Barras
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-09-22
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1137319216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis two-volume book explores how the great buildings of England bear witness to a thousand years of the nation’s history. In every age, investment in iconic buildings reaches a climax when the prevailing mode of production is operating most effectively, surplus wealth is most plentiful, and the dominant class rules supreme. During such periods of stability and prosperity, the demand for new buildings is strong, structural and stylistic innovations abound, and there is fierce competition to build for lasting fame. Each such climax produces a unique vintage of hegemonic buildings that are monuments to the wealth and power of those who ruled their world. This first volume provides an introduction to the study of wealth accumulation over the past millennium. There follow three case studies of iconic building investment from the eleventh to the seventeenth century. During the eleventh and twelfth centuries the conquering Norman kings and barons erected castles throughout the country to cement their feudal power. During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the great wealth of the ecclesiastical estates funded the lavish construction of Gothic cathedrals and abbeys. During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries Tudor and Jacobean magnates vied to build the most magnificent palaces and prodigy houses. The English Revolution brought this era to a close.
The Eighteenth-Century Town
Author: Peter Borsay
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1317899741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe eighteenth century represents a critical period in the transition of the English urban history, as the town of the early modern era involved into that of the industrial revolution; and since Britain was the 'first industrial nation', this transformation is of more-than-national significance for all those interested in the histroy of towns. This book gathers together in one volume some of the most interesting and important articles that have appeared in research journals to provide a rich variety of perspectives on urban evelopment in the period.
Fish into Wine
Author: Peter E. Pope
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-12-01
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 0807839175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining innovative archaeological analysis with historical research, Peter E. Pope examines the way of life that developed in seventeenth-century Newfoundland, where settlement was sustained by seasonal migration to North America's oldest industry, the cod fishery. The unregulated English settlements that grew up around the exchange of fish for wine served the fishery by catering to nascent consumer demand. The English Shore became a hub of transatlantic trade, linking Newfoundland with the Chesapeake, New and old England, southern Europe, and the Atlantic islands. Pope gives special attention to Ferryland, the proprietary colony founded by Sir George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, in 1621, but later taken over by the London merchant Sir David Kirke and his remarkable family. The saga of the Kirkes provides a narrative line connecting social and economic developments on the English Shore with metropolitan merchants, proprietary rivalries, and international competition. Employing a rich variety of evidence to place the fisheries in the context of transatlantic commerce, Pope makes Newfoundland a fresh point of view for understanding the demographic, economic, and cultural history of the expanding North Atlantic world.
The Culture of Commerce in England, 1660-1720
Author: Natasha Glaisyer
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0861932811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLate seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England - the period between the Restoration and the South Sea Bubble - was dramatically transformed by the massive cost of fighting wars, and, significantly, a huge increase in the re-export trade. This book seeks to ask how commerce was legitimated, promoted, fashioned, defined and understood in this period of spectacular commercial and financial 'revolution'. It examines the packaging and portrayal of commerce, and of commercial knowledge, positioning itself between studies of merchant culture on the one hand and of the commercialisation of society on the other. It focuses on four main areas: the Royal Exchange where the London trading community gathered; sermons preached before mercantile audiences; periodicals and newspapers concerned with trade; and commercial didactic literature. Dr NATASHA GLAISYER teaches in the Department of History at the University of York.
The birth of modern London
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2021-02-23
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1526158647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe period 1660–1720 saw the foundation of modern London. The city was transformed post-Fire from a tight warren of medieval timber-framed buildings into a vastly expanded, regularised landscape of brick houses laid out in squares and spacious streets. This work for the first time examines in detail the building boom and the speculative developers who created that landscape. It offers a wealth of new information on their working practices, the role of craftsmen and the design thinking which led to the creation of a new prototype for English housing. The book concentrates on the mass-produced houses of 'the middling sort' which saw the adoption of classicism on a large scale in this country for the first time. McKellar shows, however, that the 'new city' maintained a surprising degree of continuity with existing patterns of urban used and traditional architecture. The book presents the late seventeenth and the early eighteenth century as a distinct phase in London's architectural development and offers a radical reinterpretations of the adoption of Renaissance styles and ideas at the level of the everyday, challenging conventional interpretations of their use and reception in this country.
The Rise of the English Town, 1650-1850
Author: Christopher Chalklin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-01-04
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780521667371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the growth and development of English towns when the proportion of the population living in towns rose from a sixth to a half. Chalklin surveys the demography, economy and social structure of market and county towns.
