Economy and Culture in North-East England, 1500-1800

A rich picture of the complexities of early industrial development in the north-east of England.

List of contents

Foreword - Keith Wrightson
Introduction - Adrian Green and Barbara Crosbie
Church Leaseholders on Durham Cathedral's Estate, 1540-1640: The Rise of a Rural Elite? - A.T. Brown
Durham Ox: Commercial Agriculture in North-East England, 1600-1800 - Adrian Green
Fluctuating Fortunes: The Bowes Family and Lead Mining Concessions, 1550-1720 - John Brown
Material Matters: Improving Berwick upon Tweed's Urban Environment, 1551-1603 - Leona Skelton
Work before Play: The Occupational Structure of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1600-1710 - Andy Burn
Maintaining Moral Integrity: The Economic and Cultural Relationships of Quakers in North-East England, 1653-1700 - Lindsay Houpt-Varner
Shipping on the Tyne: The Growth and Diversification of Seaborne Trade in the Eighteenth Century - Peter Wright
From Carboniferous Capitalism to Complementary Commerce: Coastal and Overland Trade between North-East England and Scotland, 1580-1750 - Matthew Greenhall
Provincial Purveyors of Culture: The Print Trade in Eighteenth-Century Newcastle upon Tyne - Barbara Crosbie
Parish, River, Region and Nation: Networks of Power in Eighteenth-Century Wearside - Gwenda Morgan
Parish, River, Region and Nation: Networks of Power in Eighteenth-Century Wearside - Peter Rushton
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Adrian Green, Barbara Crosbie

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A rich picture of the complexities of early industrial development in the north-east of England.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Crosbie, Adrian Green
• Assisted by: Barbara Crosbie (Editor), Barbara (Author) Crosbie (Editor), Adrian Green (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781783271832
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-183-2
• No. of pages: 319
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 757 g
• Series: Regions and Regionalism in His; Regions and Regionalism in History; Regions and Regionalism in His; Regions and Regionalism in History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics