Trade and Industry in Tudor and Stuart England. Historical problems

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Deals with economic and industrial change in the 16th and 17th centuries, notably the latter, identifying a 'revolution' that 'nearly took place but [was] eventually aborted'. Structured in two parts: 1] 'Introduction' covering 'Problems of growth in 16th and 17th century English society - an overall economic matrix'; 'A re-examination of change in 16th and 17th English industries' [pp66-121] ; 'The marketing structure'; 2] 'Selected documents' being transcriptions / interpretations of 33 historical documents which support the text. The 're-examination' of industries includes the following sections: 'Extractive industries' / 'Technological developments in the iron industry' / 'Output of the iron industry' / 'Changes in the lead industry' / 'Government-fostered development - the copper and calamine industries' / 'Small scale industries - successors and failures' / 'The salt industry - a case of moderate growth?' / 'The glass industry - technical change and monopoly' / 'The fishing industry - the problem of foreign competition' / ' The merchant marine' / 'Shipbuilding - evidence of growth but also of traditionalism' / 'The cloth industry - the complicated colossus that dominated the English economy' / 'Silk, cotton, linen - a growth area' / 'The lesser industries - the significance of diversification' / 'The consumption industries' / 'The role of secondary industries'