... lucid, well argued and historiographically deft ... it is an accomplished addition to the growing literature concerned with the urban, commercial and middling classes of later seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.

• THE MERCANTILE CITY ; BUSINESS AND PUBLIC LIFE ; MERCANTILE ASSOCIATION AND COMMERCIAL POLITICS ; THE MERCHANT, POLITICS, AND THE PRESS ; THE MERCHANT AND PARLIAMENT ; THE POLITICS OF TRADE: THE FRENCH COMMERCE BILL OF 1713

... lucid, well argued and historiographically deft ... it is an accomplished addition to the growing literature concerned with the urban, commercial and middling classes of later seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.

• THE MERCANTILE CITY ; BUSINESS AND PUBLIC LIFE ; MERCANTILE ASSOCIATION AND COMMERCIAL POLITICS ; THE MERCHANT, POLITICS, AND THE PRESS ; THE MERCHANT AND PARLIAMENT ; THE POLITICS OF TRADE: THE FRENCH COMMERCE BILL OF 1713

... lucid, well argued and historiographically deft ... it is an accomplished addition to the growing literature concerned with the urban, commercial and middling classes of later seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.

• THE MERCANTILE CITY ; BUSINESS AND PUBLIC LIFE ; MERCANTILE ASSOCIATION AND COMMERCIAL POLITICS ; THE MERCHANT, POLITICS, AND THE PRESS ; THE MERCHANT AND PARLIAMENT ; THE POLITICS OF TRADE: THE FRENCH COMMERCE BILL OF 1713