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artisans
atlantic economy
atlantic seaboard
Author_David Harris Sacks
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bristol
capitalism
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city life
cultural change
cultural practices
early capitalist economy
economic conditions
economic history
economics
english history
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ethical norms
ethics
history of capitalism
justice
levant
medieval commercial economy
merchandise
merchants
modern western economy
monopoly
national politics
overseas merchants
pilgrimage
political change
political theory
retail shopkeepers
social change
thick description
urban life
Product details
- ISBN 9780520084490
- Weight: 726g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Dec 1993
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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From the Preface: Bristol is the city that John Cabot sailed from and Thomas Chatterton dreamed, that Hugh Latimer preached to and Oliver Cromwell seized, that entertained Parliaments in the Middle Ages and rioted for Reform in the nineteenth century. Since the Norman Conquest, it has always had an important place in English history, experiencing events and contributing to developments that stirred the nation. What follows is an account of its connection with one small piece of that history, the rise of the Atlantic economy in the early modern period and the accompanying transformation of English economic ideas and practices. But this book is not about economics alone. It is grounded on the belief that we can no more abstract the economy from politics, culture, and society than we can separate intentional human action from thought and judgment. It also rejects the notion that the life of a city like Bristol could ever be treated as a self-contained whole. Instead it views such cities as social organisms living in close relationship with their surroundings. What gives them their structure is the set of internal codes they carry.
And what enables them to survive is their ability to adapt to or transform their environment, which itself is always changing.
David Harris Sacks is Associate Professor of History and Humanities at Reed College and the author of Trade, Society, and Politics in Bristol, 1500-1640.
