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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461521103321

Autore

Russell Conrad

Titolo

Unrevolutionary England, 1603-1642 / / Conrad Russell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Ronceverte, WV (U.S.A.) : , : Hambledon Press, , 1990

ISBN

1-4725-9967-5

0-8264-2566-6

1-283-20161-5

9786613201614

1-283-20171-2

9786613201713

0-8264-3099-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Disciplina

941.06/1

Soggetti

Great Britain History Early Stuarts, 1603-1649

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Essays originally published 1962-1988.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Preface; The Published Writings of F.J. Fisher; 1 F. J. Fisher and the Dialectic of Economic History; 2 In Memory of F. J. Fisher (edited by N.B. Harte); 3 Some Experiments in Company Organisation in the Early Seventeenth Century; 4 The Development of the London Food Market, 1540-1640; 5 Commercial Trends and Policy in Sixteenth-Century England; 6 The Development of London as a Centre of Conspicuous Consumption in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; 7 London's Export Trade in the Early Seventeenth Century

8 The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: The Dark Ages in English Economic History?9 Tawney's Century; 10 Influenza and Inflation in Tudor England; 11 The Growth of London; 12 London as an 'Engine of Economic Growth'; Index

Sommario/riassunto

What holds these essays together is the rejection of the idea of 'the birth of the modern world'. England before the Civil War was not a country welcoming a brave new world but one clinging fearfully to an old one. Change, where it happened, was not the result of a deliberate striving for 'progress', and the polity of pre-Civil War England was not on the point of collapse. Parliaments were not dominated by two 'sides'



in training for a Cup Final at Naseby, but were groups of people struggling with limited success to reach agreement