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Author : Peter Sawyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780199253937
Explains how, on the eve of the Norman Conquest, England had become an exceptionally wealthy, highly urbanized kingdom, with a large, well-controlled coinage of high quality.
Author : (sir) g. n Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1417511084
Author : Susan Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785707377
The wool trade was undoubtedly one of the most important elements of the British economy throughout the medieval period - even the seat occupied by the speaker of the House of lords rests on a woolsack. In The Wealth of England Susan Rose brings together the social, economic and political strands in the development of the wool trade and show how and why it became so important. The author looks at the lives of prominent wool-men; gentry who based their wealth on producing this commodity like the Stonors in the Chilterns, canny middlemen who rose to prominence in the City of London like Nicholas Brembre and Richard (Dick) Whittington, and men who acquired wealth and influence like William de la Pole of Hull. She examines how the wealth made by these and other wool-men transformed the appearance of the leading centres of the trade with magnificent churches and other buildings. The export of wool also gave England links with Italian trading cities at the very time that the Renaissance was transforming cultural life. The complex operation of the trade is also explained with the role of the Staple at Calais to the fore leading to a discussion on the way the policy of English kings, especially in the fourteenth century, was heavily influenced by trade in this one commodity. No other book has treated this subject holistically with its influence on the course of English history made plain. Susan Rose presents a fascinating new exposition on the role of the wool trade in the economy and political history of medieval England. She shows how this simple product created wealth and status among men of hugely varying backgrounds, transformed market towns both economically and in architectural terms and contributed to fundamental social and cultural changes through trading links with Italy and other European countries at the height of the Renaissance
Author : Sir George Norman Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UIUC:30112012171218
Author : Adam Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600039787
Author : G. N. Clark
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1986-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313250453
This book reviews English economic history from the eve of the discovery of America through the time when the Industrial Revolution was well underway. It emphasizes the connection of the wealth of England with developments in Europe and in the other continents generally, but it does not wrap the facts in theoretical concepts which often make economic history obscure and difficult. It gives a clear account of the agriculture, trade, industry, and social structure of England, showing how they all changed continuously and how each influenced the other.
Author : George Norman Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:246587918
Author : G. N. Clark
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1354722337
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : George Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:943669860
Author : Stanley Thomas Bindoff
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : England
ISBN : UCAL:B4421925
Author : Julian Cornwall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : England
ISBN : 0710096372
Author : Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0198042604
London became an international center for import and export trade in the late Middle Ages. The export of wool, the development of luxury crafts and the redistribution of goods from the continent made London one of the leading commercial cities of Europe. While capital for these ventures came from a variety of sources, the recirculation of wealth through London women was important in providing both material and social capital for the growth of London's economy. A shrewd Venetian visiting England around 1500 commented about the concentration of wealth and property in women's hands. He reported that London law divided a testator's property three ways allowing a third to the wife for her life use, a third for immediate inheritance of the heirs, and a third for burial and the benefit of the testator's soul. Women inherited equally with men and widows had custody of the wealth of minor children. In a society in which marriage was assumed to be a natural state for women, London women married and remarried. Their wealth followed them in their marriages and was it was administered by subsequent husbands. This study, based on extensive use of primary source materials, shows that London's economic growth was in part due to the substantial wealth that women transmitted through marriage. The Italian visitor observed that London men, unlike Venetians, did not seek to establish long patrilineages discouraging women to remarry, but instead preferred to recirculate wealth through women. London's social structure, therefore, was horizontal, spreading wealth among guilds rather than lineages. The liquidity of wealth was important to a growing commercial society and women brought not only wealth but social prestige and trade skills as well into their marriages. But marriage was not the only economic activity of women. London law permitted women to trade in their own right as femmes soles and a number of women, many of them immigrants from the countryside, served as wage laborers. But London's archives confirm women's chief economic impact was felt in the capital and skill they brought with them to marriages, rather than their profits as independent traders or wage laborers.
Author : Isaac Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:HN5BUQ
Author : Philip Beresford,William D. Rubinstein
Publisher : Harriman House Limited
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857190659
A comprehensive study of Britain's 250 richest people in history, from the time of William the Conqueror to the present. In this book, Philip Beresford, the author of The Sunday Times annual 'Rich List' and history expert William D. Rubinstein, have turned their attention to the wealthiest individuals in British history, revealing how they made their fortunes, the role played by luck, contacts and violence, and how successful they were in hanging on to their gains. People like: - William of Warenne, the Earl of Surrey in the 1050s, who if he were alive today would be worth nearly £74bn - over three times richer than Britain's current richest man (steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal). - Archbishop Thomas Beckett, who took 250 servants with him on a visit to Paris in 1158, and was worth over £24bn. Not that his fortune was much use when he was murdered in his own cathedral on the orders of Henry II. - Robert Spencer, forebear of Princess Diana, who made a fortune in the wool trade, owned vast tracts of land in the colony of Virginia. and accumulated a fortune equivalent to £19bn in today's money. - John Scott, a celebrated gambler whose skills and luck helped him to a £500,000 (£3.1bn) fortune. "As rich as Scott" was a popular saying of eighteenth century society. The authors provide a fascinating account of personal wealth and influence, noting how, throughout history, the opportunities for aggrandising wealth have been changed by technology, demographics, taxation, politics and war. If you are interested in business, society and the shifting patterns of advantage then you will find this book absorbing, intriguing and insightful.
Author : Adam Smith
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Page : 925 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781623958374
The Wealth of Nations was first published in 1776 and is a foundational text in classical economics. In this book, Adam Smith describes what builds a nation's wealth and reflects on topics like the division of labor, productivity and free markets. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.