Merchants, Markets and Manufacture: The English Wood Textile Industry in the Eighteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780312221621 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 198 str.

John Smail

Opis

This book explores the causes and nature of the industrial revolution through a comparative study of the main wool textile manufacturing regions of England. Based on extensive archival research and including several new or little-known sources, it addresses many of the current debates in economic history and eighteenth-century studies by examining how the interplay between merchants, markets, and producers shaped the pace and character of economic growth during the eighteenth century. Particular attention is paid to the rapid growth of product innovation and the export trade as both of these factors affected evolving structures of marketing and production.

Recenzje

...a valuable approach to the role and functioning of markets and marketing during the period... Enterprise & Society

Spis treści

Figures Introduction Products and Markets in the English Wool Textile Industry to 1730 The Manufacturer and the Market Around mid-Century The Merchant, the Clothier, and the Market Around mid-Century An Adventure to New York: The Export Trade in the Colonies Travellers: The Export Trade in Europe The End of the Century Boom and the Supremacy of Yorkshire Conclusion: Technology, Innovation, and the Industrial Revolution Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

JOHN SMAIL is Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of The Origins of Middle-Class Culture: Halifax, Yorkshire 1660-1780 , and has published articles on aspects of the English wool textile industry and early industrialization.