Religion, Business and Society in North East England. The Pease family of Darlington in the nineteenth century
Details:
- Author(s) Orde, Anne
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2000
- Pages 131pp; illus
- Publisher Shaun Tyas
- Place Published Stamford
Topics:
- Name Faith & ethnicity
- Name Business & politics inc lobbying
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of businesses
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly work concerned with the connections of business and faith as exemplified through the activities of the Pease family, prominent Quakers and leading business owners in North East England - 'it is an examination of one prominent Quaker family of industrialists, with a distinctive type of business, and their contribution to the economic, social and political development of North East England over the nineteenth century'. Its sections include: 'Family and religion'; 'Railways, iron and urban development'; 'Coal'; 'Local politics'; 'National politics'; 'Social and domestic life - decline'