Metropolitan Communities. Trade guilds, identity and change in early modern London
Details:
- Author(s) Ward, Joseph P
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1997
- Pages 203pp
- Publisher Stanford University Press
- Place Published Stanford CA
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with London in the 16th and 17th centuries at a time of massive expansion [notably outside the City of London] and influx of immigrants and the impact of this on London's guilds and their authority. Has chapters: 'Imagining a metropolitan community'; 'Livery companies and the metropolis'; 'Companies and callings - the diversity of experience'; 'Communication and company politics'; 'Religion, economics and tolerance in the Grocers' Company'; 'Economic competition and politics in the Weavers' Company'