Seventeenth Century Economic Documents
Details:
- Author(s) Thirsk, Joan, & J P Cooper (eds)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1972
- Pages 849pp
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Place Published Oxford
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Intended as a companion to R H Tawney & Eileen Power (eds), 'Tudor Economic Documents', 1924, as it covers the proceeding century. Entirely comprises transcriptions of c400 documents structured as follows: 1] 'Economic crises'; 2] 'Agriculture'; 3] 'Industries'; 4] 'Inland and coastal trade and communications'; 5] 'Overseas trade'; 6] 'Finance and coinage'; 7] 'Aliens'; 8] 'Wealth, population and land - some contemporary statistics'. Touches on: merchant trading; inland navigation; shipping services; international trading companies; linen textiles; woollen & worsted textiles; alum production; paper production; iron & steel production; lead extraction; Royal Mint; Earls of Dudley landed estates