The Brewing Industry in England, 1700-1830
The Brewing Industry in England, 1700-1830

Author: Peter Mathias

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 595

ISBN-13: 9780751201505

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The brewing industry was one of the most wide-spread and diverse in England, ranging from household brewing and brewing publicans to large, sophisticated urban breweries. This book covers the main agricultural connections of the industry, trade markets, innovation, finance and more.

Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England
Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England

Author: Judith M. Bennett

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1996-11-07

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0195360796

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Women brewed and sold most of the ale consumed in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade. By 1600, most brewers in London were male, and men also dominated the trade in many towns and villages. This book asks how, when, and why brewing ceased to be women's work and instead became a job for men. Employing a wide variety of sources and methods, Bennett vividly describes how brewsters (that is, female brewers) gradually left the trade. She also offers a compelling account of the endurance of patriarchy during this time of dramatic change.

The Chinese Market Economy, 1000–1500
The Chinese Market Economy, 1000–1500

Author: William Guanglin Liu

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2015-08-31

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1438455674

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Documents the rise and fall of a market economy in China from 1000–1500. Since the economic liberalization of the 1980s, the Chinese economy has boomed and is poised to become the world’s largest market economy, a position traditional China held a millennium ago. William Guanglin Liu’s bold and fascinating book is the first to rely on quantitative methods to investigate the early market economy that existed in China, making use of rare market and population data produced by the Song dynasty in the eleventh century. A counterexample comes from the century around 1400 when the early Ming court deliberately turned agrarian society into a command economy system. This radical change not only shrank markets, but also caused a sharp decline in the living standards of common people. Liu’s landmark study of the rise and fall of a market economy highlights important issues for contemporary China at both the empirical and theoretical levels.

Gender and Fraternal Orders in Europe, 1300–2000
Gender and Fraternal Orders in Europe, 1300–2000

Author: Máire Fedelma Cross

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-09-30

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0230283381

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What have medieval nuns, parrot shooting, Freemasonry, and Shetland revelry got in common? This study of monastic orders, guilds, Freemasonry and friendly societies over centuries and across frontiers provides new insights into their contribution to the gendering of public space and the evolution of 'separate spheres' in Europe.

The Economy of Obligation
The Economy of Obligation

Author: C. Muldrew

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 1349268798

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This book is an excellent work of scholarship. It seeks to redefine the early modern English economy by rejecting the concept of capitalism, and instead explores the cultural meaning of credit, resulting from the way in which it was economically structured. It is a major argument of the book that money was used only in a limited number of exchanges, and that credit in terms of household reputation, was a 'cultural currency' of trust used to transact most business. As the market expanded in the late-sixteenth century such trust became harder to maintain, leading to an explosion of debt litigation, which in turn resulted in social relations being partially redefined in terms of contractual equality.

Alcohol in the Early Modern World
Alcohol in the Early Modern World

Author: B. Ann Tlusty

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-05-06

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1350199613

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This book examines how the profound religious, political, and intellectual shifts that characterize the early modern period in Europe are inextricably linked to cultural uses of alcohol in Europe and the Atlantic world. Combining recent work on the history of drink with innovative new research, the eight contributing scholars explore themes such as identity, consumerism, gender, politics, colonialism, religion, state-building, and more through the revealing lens of the pervasive drinking cultures of early modern peoples. Alcohol had a place at nearly every European table and a role in much of early modern experience, from building personal bonds via social and ritual drinking to fueling economies at both micro and macro levels. At the same time, drinking was also at the root of a host of personal tragedies, including domestic violence in the home and human trafficking across the Atlantic. Alcohol in the Early Modern World provides a fascinating re-examination of pre-modern beliefs about and experiences with intoxicating beverages.