The most necessary luxuries: the Mercer's Company of Coventry, 1550-1680 / Ronald M. Berger
1993, 1st edition. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #317098
ISBN: 0271008679
Physical description: xvi, 317 pages: illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Pt. 1. The Setting: 1500-1680 -- 1. The Demand for Luxury Goods and the Content of Shops -- 2. Coventry: A Period of Vigorous Decadence -- 3. The Mercers' Company: Like Walls after an Earthquake -- Pt. 2. Embattled Tradesmen -- 4. Crisis in the Import Trade, 1565-1583 -- 5. An Observance of Trifles: Who Would Sell the New Draperies -- 6. Peddlers and Merchant Princes: New Directions in Provincial Shopping -- Pt. 3. Mercantile Politics and Merchant Dynasties -- 7. No Other Weapon but Organization -- 8. A Craft So Long to Learn -- 9. Quick, Bright Things: The "Life Course" of Mercantile Dynasties -- Principal Primary Sources in the City of Coventry Archives -- App. 1. Location of Coventry in Relation to All Midland Towns with a Population of 200 or More Families, 1523-1563 -- App. 2. Companies Extant in Coventry, 1639 -- App. 3. Members of Parliament for Coventry, 1547-1640 -- App. 4. Officers of the Mercers' Company, 1579-1660 -- App. 5. Receipts and Expenditures of the Mercers' Company, 1579-1660 -- App. 6. Number of Apprentices Enrolled in Coventry Companies, 1560-1680 -- App. 7. Balance of Accounts for the Mercers' Company, 1585-1685. Subjects: Mercers' Company of Coventry History. Mercers' Company of Coventry. Textile industry England Coventry History. House furnishings industry and trade. England Coventry History. Textile industry England Coventry History 16th century. Textile industry England Coventry History 17th century. Commerce. Economic history. Social conditions. Genre: Bibliography. History. Illustrated.
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