Quaker Politics and Industrial Change, c1800-1850
Details:
- Author(s) Morton, Vanessa
- Publication type Dissertation, PhD
- Year published 1988
- Publisher Open University
Topics:
- Name Faith & ethnicity
- Name Business & politics inc lobbying
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Examines the ways in which 'Quaker organisation adapted to and facilitated economic change, and in which Quakerism and Quaker politics developed to reflect and represent the new economic and social requirements of this predominantly bourgeois and business community'. Touches on the Pease family and Backhouse family of County Durham in a chapter 'Quaker Enterprise and Politics in South Durham, c. 1820-1850'