Gentleman Merchants. The merchant community in Leeds, 1700-1830
Details:
- Author(s) Wilson, Richard G
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1971
- Pages 271pp; illus
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Place Published Manchester
Topics:
- Name Business & politics inc lobbying
- Name Entrepreneurs & business elites
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly account based on a doctoral thesis dealing with a community of provincial merchants in the woollen trade and based at Leeds. Deals with their composition, context, processes, expansion, 'defections', relationship with manufacture, other economic interests, politics and religion, activities in Leeds and in Yorkshire, socio-cultural position, etc. Includes much about, inter alia, William Dennison, William Cookson, Benjamin Gott, Henry Ibbetson and Ibbetson & Koster