The English Gentleman in Trade

The Life and Works of Sir Dudley North 1641-1691

Inbunden, Engelska, 1994

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Beskrivning

In a pre-industrial economy dominated by small family firms, economic growth could not have occurred without the skill, persistence, and initiative of individual businessmen like Sir Dudley North. North was not only a celebrated merchant and economist, but an important and controversial servant of Charles II and James II. Richard Grassby exploits the extraordinary wealth of documentation available to establish how North made a fortune in the Levant commodity trade and through usury. He explores his character, beliefs, and intentions, and the diverse technical and personal reasons for his success. As the younger son of a peer, his domestic life and his relationships with his family and the world of business demonstrate both the mobility of English society and the close integration of town and country. His works, which are here published in full for the first time, reveal the breadth of his intellectual interests.Although a man of exceptional personality, North confronted the same obstacles and opportunities as other merchants of his day, and this study of his life offers us unique and valuable insights into the seventeenth-century business world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1994-02-17
Mått:160 x 241 x 26 mm
Vikt:734 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:416
Förlag:Clarendon Press
ISBN:9780198204398

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'This is an outstanding book, original in its scholarship, and in the kind of questions it asks and in the way it seeks to answer them, technically accomplished and extremely well written. Years of work have gone into this magisterial study of English economic history at a particularly interesting stage, when there was everything to play for and the odds against winning were formidable. The triumph of this book is the author's ability to stand back from his researches and to summarise in simple, vigorous language which his sitter would certainly approve what manner of man he was and what lights he steered by. The roundness, the completeness of this portrait can hardly be glimpsed in a short review. The information and insights it contains are worthy of Braudel.'Richard Ollard, The Mariner's Mirror, Volume 80 (1994)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: the human factor. Part 1 The man of business: the apprentice; the commission agent; the general merchant; lender and landlord; the process of accumulation. Part 2 Public and private life: the reluctant politician; the civil servant; the urban gentleman; the family man; the political economist; conclusion - self-help in action. Part 3 Economic works of Sir Dudley North: "Discourse Upon Trade Principally Directed to the Cases of the Interest Coynage Clipping Increase of Money"; "A Representation Intended to be Layd Before the Parliament in the Year 1683 Concerning the Bad Condition of the Mony Current in England and the Meanes to Remedy it"; "Concerning the Values of Land and Fall of Rents"; "Some Notes Concerning the Laws for the Poor"; Reflections on the Petition of Hogia Panos". Appendices: passages excised from the printed version of the "Life of Sir Dudley North"; "Instructions for Dudley Foley for His Way of Living and Most Hopeful for His Advancement in the Way of a Merchant Which He is Now Entering Into", by Monague North; currencies and exchange rates; glossary of Turkish terms and institutions; reconstructed balance sheets; genealogies of the North and Cann families; preface to the "Discourses" by Roger North.