Merchants, Markets and Manufacture

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.

• Figures Introduction Products and Markets in the English Wool Textile Industry to 1730 The Manufacturer and the Market Around mid-Century The Merchant, the Clothier, and the Market Around mid-Century An Adventure to New York: The Export Trade in the Colonies Travellers: The Export Trade in Europe The End of the Century Boom and the Supremacy of Yorkshire Conclusion: Technology, Innovation, and the Industrial Revolution Notes Bibliography Index

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