Essays in the economic and social history of Tudor and Stuart England, in honour of R.H. Tawney / edited by F.J. Fisher
1961, 1st edition. Cambridge [England] : University Press. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Marginal pencil markings. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Item #401958
Physical description; 235 pp., portrait, tables, 23 cm. Contents; Tawney's century, by F.J. Fisher.--Protestantism and the rise of capitalism, by C. Hill.--Habitation versus improvement: the debate on enclosure by agreement, by M. Beresford.--Industries in the countryside, by J. Thirsk.--The fruits of office: the case of Robert Cecil, first earl of Salisbury, 1596-1612, by L. Stone.--England and the Mediterranean, 1570-1670, by R. Davis.--Charles I and the city, by R. Ashton.--The officers of the exchequer, 1625-42, by G.E. Aylmer.--The accounts of the Kingdom, 1642-49, by D.H. Pennington.--Sir John Banks, financier: an essay on Government borrowing under the later Stuarts, by D.C. Coleman. Subjects; Tawney, R. H. (Richard Henry) 1880-1962. Historians Great Britain 20th century. Economic history. Social conditions.
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