Perry of London. A family and a firm on the seaborne frontier, 1615-1753
Details:
- Author(s) Price, Jacob M
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1992
- Pages 191pp
- Publisher Harvard University Press
- Place Published Cambridge MA
Topics:
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of businesses
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Reconstructs the history of the Perry firm and family as a case study of 17th and 18th century merchanting. Structured in two parts: 1] 'The rise of the house of Perry, 1615-1721' and 2] 'The fall of the house of Perry, 1721-1753'. Part 1] 'The early Perrys and their wanderings'; 'The emergence of Perry & Lane'; 'The business of the Perry firm'; 'The public role of Micaiah Perry 1'; Part 2: 'The challenge of the third generation'; 'The perils of politics'; 'The family and the fall'. Includes family trees