Capital and Innovation. How Britain became the first industrial nation. A study of the Warrington, Knutsford, Northwich and Frodsham area, 1500-1780

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Detailed study of a small part of the Mersey Basin in North Cheshire from the 16th century to the late 18th century expostulating a redistribution of wealth from the traditional holders - gentry, church, etc, - to new holders who in 17th century emerged as a business society using their wealth in trade and manufacture and whose successors in 18th century invested in infrastructure and manufacturing with greater momentum, noting that this experience was not paralleled in southern England. Organised in three sections: 1] Redistribution of wealth, 1530-1670; 2] 'Emergence of a business society, 1650-1780; 3] Comparisons with other societies in England and overseas