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UNINA9910461521103321 |
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Autore |
Russell Conrad |
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Unrevolutionary England, 1603-1642 / / Conrad Russell |
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London ; ; Ronceverte, WV (U.S.A.) : , : Hambledon Press, , 1990 |
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1-4725-9967-5 |
0-8264-2566-6 |
1-283-20161-5 |
9786613201614 |
1-283-20171-2 |
9786613201713 |
0-8264-3099-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (219 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Great Britain History Early Stuarts, 1603-1649 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Essays originally published 1962-1988. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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' |
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