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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779314003321

Autore

Kadane Matthew

Titolo

The watchful clothier [[electronic resource] ] : the life of an eighteenth-century Protestant capitalist / / Matthew Kadane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2013

ISBN

0-300-18893-5

1-283-91532-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history

Disciplina

381.092

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Soggetti

Merchants - England - Leeds

Clothing trade - England - Leeds - History - 18th century

Leeds (England) Commerce History 18th century

Leeds (England) Economic conditions 18th century

Leeds (England) Social conditions 18th century

Leeds (England) Social life and customs 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Double-minded men -- "My character & conduct" -- "That single word watch" -- "An active frame in courts below" -- "The sparks that fly upward" -- Mourning, melancholy, and money -- The changing meaning of God and man -- The making of a middle-class mind.

Sommario/riassunto

A clothier and a deeply religious man, Joseph Ryder faithfully kept a diary from 1733 until his death, two and a half million words later, in 1768. Recently rediscovered and brilliantly interpreted by historian Matthew Kadane, Ryder's diary provides an illuminating, real-life perspective on the relationship between capitalism and Protestantism at a time when Britain was rapidly changing from a traditional to a modern society. It also provides fascinating insights on the early modern family, the birth of industrialization, the history of Puritanism, the origins of Unitarianism, melancholy, and the making of the British middle class.