Economy and culture in north-east England, 1500-1800 / edited by Adrian Green, Barbara Crosbie. - 1 online resource (xxii, 293 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Regions and regionalism in history ; 17 .

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Foreword / Keith Wrightson -- Introduction: Beyond 'coal and class': economy and culture in North-East England, 1500-1800 / Adrian Green and Barbara Crosbie -- 1. Church leaseholders on Durham Cathedral's estate, 1540-1640: the rise of a rural elite? / A.T. Brown -- 2. Durham Ox: commercial agriculture in North-East England, 1600-1800 / Adrian Green -- 3. Fluctuating fortunes: the Bowes family and lead mining concessions, 1550-1720 / John Brown -- 4. Material matters: improving Berwick upon Tweed's urban environment, 1551-1603 / Leona Skelton -- 5. Work before play: the occupational structure of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1600-1710 / Andy Burn -- 6. Maintaining moral integrity: the cultural and economic relationships of Quakers in North-East England, 1653-1700 / Lindsay Houpt-Varner -- 7. Shipping on the Tyne: the growth and diversification of seaborne trade in the eighteenth century / Peter D. Wright -- 8. From carboniferous capitalism to complementary commerce: coastal and overland trade between North-East England and Scotland, 1580-1750 / Matthew Greenhall -- 9. Provincial purveyors of culture: the print trade in eighteenth-century Newcastle upon Tyne / Barbara Crosbie -- 10. Parish, river, region and nation: networks of power in eighteenth-century Wearside / Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton.

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

9781787441729 (ebook)


England, North East--Economic conditions.
England, North East--Social life and customs.

HC257.N48 / E36 2018

339.09428