Late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England - the period between the Restoration and the South Sea Bubble - was dramatically transformed by the massive cost of fighting wars, and, significantly, a huge increase in the re-export trade. This book seeks to ask how commerce was legitimated, promoted, fashioned, defined and understood in this period of spectacular commercial and financial -revolution-. It examines the packaging and portrayal of commerce, and of commercial knowledge, positioning itself between studies of merchant culture on the one hand and of the commercialisation of...
Late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England - the period between the Restoration and the South Sea Bubble - was dramatically transformed by...
The development of literacy in the early modern period - a literacy that was often based upon the ability to read - encouraged an interest in didactic texts. These essays explore attitudes and reactions to a range of informational books from that period.
The development of literacy in the early modern period - a literacy that was often based upon the ability to read - encouraged an interest in didactic...
