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

• Autore: Kadane Matthew
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Disciplina: 381.092; B
• Soggetto topico: Merchants - England - Leeds; Clothing trade - England - Leeds - History - 18th century
• Soggetto geografico: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The watchful clothier
• ISBN: 0-300-18893-5; 1-283-91532-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779314003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.