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Merchants, Markets and Manufacture

The English Wool Textile Industry in the Eighteenth Century

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. John Smail

    1. University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-14

  3. Products and Markets in the English Wool Textile Industry to 1730

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    Pages 15-31

  4. The Manufacturer and the Market around mid-Century

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    Pages 32-53

  5. The Merchant, the Clothier and the Market around mid-Century

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    Pages 54-74

  6. An Adventure to New York: the Export Trade in the Colonies

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    Pages 75-93

  7. Travellers: the Export Trade in Europe

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    Pages 94-112

  8. The End-of-the-Century Boom and the Supremacy of Yorkshire

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    Pages 113-132

  9. Conclusion: Technology, Innovation and the Industrial Revolution

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    Pages 133-152

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 153-198
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About this book

This book explores the causes and nature of the industrial revolution through a comparative study of the main wool textile manufacturing regions of England. Addressing many of the current debates in economic history and eighteenth-century studies through a detailed, archivally-based analysis, it examines how the interplay between merchants, markets and producers shaped the pace and character of economic growth during the eighteenth century, paying particular attention to the implications of rapid product innovation and the export trade.

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...a valuable approach to the role and functioning of markets and marketing during the period... Enterprise & Society

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA

    John Smail

About the author

JOHN SMAIL is Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of The Origins of Middle-Class Culture: Halifax, Yorkshire 1660-1780 , and has published articles on aspects of the English wool textile industry and early industrialization.

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