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The widening gate : Bristol and the Atlantic economy, 1450-1700 / David Harris Sacks.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New historicism ; 15.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1991.Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 464 pages) : illustrations, digitalContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520914520
  • 052091452X
  • 0585181624
  • 9780585181622
  • 9780520071483
  • 0520071484
  • 9780520084490
  • 0520084497
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Widening gate.DDC classification:
  • 330.9423/93 20
LOC classification:
  • HC258.B76 S23 1991eb
Other classification:
  • 15.70
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: The closed arena and the open gate -- Opening the way, 1450-1650 -- Feats of merchandise -- Mere merchants -- Organizing the society -- In a worshipful state, 1450-1650 -- The navel of the world -- The sanctification of power -- Little businesses -- Looking backward -- The capitalism of the spirit, 1650-1700 -- A shoemaker's holiday -- Registering the pilgrimage -- The spirit world -- Conclusion: The widening gate of capitalism.
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Title from e-book home page (viewed Sept. 24, 2010).

"A Centennial book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-451) and index.

Introduction: The closed arena and the open gate -- Opening the way, 1450-1650 -- Feats of merchandise -- Mere merchants -- Organizing the society -- In a worshipful state, 1450-1650 -- The navel of the world -- The sanctification of power -- Little businesses -- Looking backward -- The capitalism of the spirit, 1650-1700 -- A shoemaker's holiday -- Registering the pilgrimage -- The spirit world -- Conclusion: The widening gate of capitalism.

English.

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