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Goods and People on the Move
Proto-industry to Early Industrial Revolution
Throughout Europe, industries revived then grew impressively across the long eighteenth century. ... more Throughout Europe, industries revived then grew impressively across the long eighteenth century. Papermills in the Zaan (Holland) annually produced 20,000 reams in 1650, increasing to 160,000 reams in 1780; shipments of Irish linen shot up from one–two million yards in the 1710s to forty-seven million yards in the 1790s; French iron output more than tripled from 1740 to 1789. The expansion of rural manufacture was especially marked, even in less industrialized areas such as Poland, where around 1800 thousands of spinners in the surrounding countryside supplied thread to the 1,000 or so linen looms in Andrychow village.
Issues and Interpretations
Appendix 2: Inventory sources for free settler garment holdings
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 8, 2015
The Material Atlantic: List of abbreviations
Maps
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 8, 2015
Dress under constraint
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 8, 2015
RUN away from the Subscriber, living in Donegall, Lancaster county, an Irish servant man, named J... more RUN away from the Subscriber, living in Donegall, Lancaster county, an Irish servant man, named JOHN ROBESON, about 22 years of age, about 5 feet 6 inches high, of a fresh complexion, red hair, and commonly wears it tied behind, and cued; had on, when he went away, a shirt and trowsers, a linen jacket, with 4 rows of buttons on the breast, and a pair of old shoes; he is a good scholar, and perhaps may pass for a Doctor. There went off with him, a Negroe man, named NED, well set, and strong, but not very tall, aged about 28 years, born in the Jerseys, speaks very good English, and can read and write, of a down look, and thick lips; had on, when he went away, a coarse shirt and trowsers, a hat, bound round the edge, and a hood worked in it; he may be taken for a Mulattoe, by his colour, and probably both may have provided other clothes. Likewise ran away in company with them, a likely Negroe man, belonging to Joseph Chambers in York town, named JAMES JONES, about 28 years of age, about 5 feet 11 inches high, slim made, born in this country, and has a good countenance; he took with him a blue broadcloth coat, black velvet jacket, and breeches, a pair of leather ditto, two fine shirts, one of them ruffled, 2 coarse ditto, two pair of coarse trowsers, a pair of pumps, with silver shoe buckles, a pair of strong shoes, a blanket, and a gun, with a splint in the stock, near the butt. It is likely they may have forged passes, as the white man writes a good hand. Whoever takes up and secures the said servants, so that their masters may have them again, shall have SIX POUNDS reward for the three, or Forty Shillings for either, if taken separate, and reasonable charges, paid by us, ALEXANDER LOWRY, JOSEPH CHAMBERS. This highly circumstantial advertisement was one of three concerning runaway laborers published in the Pennsylvania Gazette dated August 17, 1769. Most such listings were briefer, and it was rare for both enslaved persons and indentured servants to appear together, so this one is in effect a compendium of the types of information proffered by (and the preoccupations of) masters seeking the return of valuable human property.
General and Miscellaneous - The Workplace before the Factory: Artisans and Proletarians, 1500–1800. Edited By Thomas Max Safley and Leonard N. Rosenban. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 252
The Journal of Economic History, Jun 1, 1995
Transiciones al capitalismo en Europa durante la Edad Moderna
Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza eBooks, 2001
Fleuves, Rivières Et Colonies: La France Et Ses Empires (XVIIe-XXe Siècle)
Commercial Practices at the Margins of the Merchant Economy
Textile Cultures in the Early Modern World
Review Of "European Approaches To North America, 1450-1640" By D. B. Quinn
University of South Carolina Press eBooks, May 21, 2020
The growth of the Atlantic economy should be one of the great themes of early modern history. But... more The growth of the Atlantic economy should be one of the great themes of early modern history. But the actual emergence and precise contours of that economy are difficult to discern. The data that reveal the increasing dynamism and commercial importance of the Atlantic basin were generated within empires constituted by and centered on European metropoles,' and up to the present, scholarship has largely remained within and mirrored those imperial bound aries. As a result, it is difficult to discern when (if at all) and the extent to which an economy rather than an aggregate of economies formed in the Atlantic basin. Is it, in fact, correct to speak of an Atlantic economy, or should we refer to the English imperial Atlantic economy, the French Atlantic economy, the Dutch, and so forth.? One way to try to answer this question is to look at goods consumed within the Atlantic world. If an Atlantic economy was coming into existence, we would expect that the process of material standardization that Timothy Breen has proposed for eighteenth-century British North America would obtain more widely.^ Is that what happened.? Did European expansion issue in common Atlantic consumption patterns.? Or was the fact that New World colonies were established by distinct European nations reflected in diverse colonial or imperial material cultures.? The Atlantic-even just the North Atlantic-covers a large space, and even in the early modern period the commodity flows were substantial. So in order to get a handle on them, and on the larger issue, this chapter concentrates on imported cloth in four cities in continental British and French North America and their more and less distant market areas, together with brief comparisons with England and France. It employs primary data bearing on (and for the most part still housed in) Montreal, Philadelphia, Charleston, and New Orleans and their commercial hinterlands. Each of these cities was a leading center in its empire and its region, trading with Native Americans, African Americans, and European Americans alike to export staples and supply necessary imports. This essay encompasses the period from the late seventeenth century to the 1760s/70s, a time when, scholars hold, the most rapid and major changes in con sumption occurred, adding up, in some accounts, to a consumer revolution.^ The
Review Of "The Rise And Decline Of Urban Industries In Italy And In The Low Countries (Late Middle Ages-Early Modern Times)" Edited By H. Van Der Wee
Review Of "The Rise Of Merchant Empires: Long Distance Trade In The Early Modern World, 1350-1750" Edited By J. D. Tracy
4. “A Few Shreds of Rough Linen” and “a Certain Degree of Elegance”
Amsterdam University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2023
Radical History Review, 1975
Goods and People on the Move
Proto-industry to Early Industrial Revolution
Throughout Europe, industries revived then grew impressively across the long eighteenth century. ... more Throughout Europe, industries revived then grew impressively across the long eighteenth century. Papermills in the Zaan (Holland) annually produced 20,000 reams in 1650, increasing to 160,000 reams in 1780; shipments of Irish linen shot up from one–two million yards in the 1710s to forty-seven million yards in the 1790s; French iron output more than tripled from 1740 to 1789. The expansion of rural manufacture was especially marked, even in less industrialized areas such as Poland, where around 1800 thousands of spinners in the surrounding countryside supplied thread to the 1,000 or so linen looms in Andrychow village.
Issues and Interpretations
Appendix 2: Inventory sources for free settler garment holdings
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 8, 2015
The Material Atlantic: List of abbreviations
Maps
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 8, 2015
Dress under constraint
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 8, 2015
RUN away from the Subscriber, living in Donegall, Lancaster county, an Irish servant man, named J... more RUN away from the Subscriber, living in Donegall, Lancaster county, an Irish servant man, named JOHN ROBESON, about 22 years of age, about 5 feet 6 inches high, of a fresh complexion, red hair, and commonly wears it tied behind, and cued; had on, when he went away, a shirt and trowsers, a linen jacket, with 4 rows of buttons on the breast, and a pair of old shoes; he is a good scholar, and perhaps may pass for a Doctor. There went off with him, a Negroe man, named NED, well set, and strong, but not very tall, aged about 28 years, born in the Jerseys, speaks very good English, and can read and write, of a down look, and thick lips; had on, when he went away, a coarse shirt and trowsers, a hat, bound round the edge, and a hood worked in it; he may be taken for a Mulattoe, by his colour, and probably both may have provided other clothes. Likewise ran away in company with them, a likely Negroe man, belonging to Joseph Chambers in York town, named JAMES JONES, about 28 years of age, about 5 feet 11 inches high, slim made, born in this country, and has a good countenance; he took with him a blue broadcloth coat, black velvet jacket, and breeches, a pair of leather ditto, two fine shirts, one of them ruffled, 2 coarse ditto, two pair of coarse trowsers, a pair of pumps, with silver shoe buckles, a pair of strong shoes, a blanket, and a gun, with a splint in the stock, near the butt. It is likely they may have forged passes, as the white man writes a good hand. Whoever takes up and secures the said servants, so that their masters may have them again, shall have SIX POUNDS reward for the three, or Forty Shillings for either, if taken separate, and reasonable charges, paid by us, ALEXANDER LOWRY, JOSEPH CHAMBERS. This highly circumstantial advertisement was one of three concerning runaway laborers published in the Pennsylvania Gazette dated August 17, 1769. Most such listings were briefer, and it was rare for both enslaved persons and indentured servants to appear together, so this one is in effect a compendium of the types of information proffered by (and the preoccupations of) masters seeking the return of valuable human property.
General and Miscellaneous - The Workplace before the Factory: Artisans and Proletarians, 1500–1800. Edited By Thomas Max Safley and Leonard N. Rosenban. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 252
The Journal of Economic History, Jun 1, 1995
Transiciones al capitalismo en Europa durante la Edad Moderna
Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza eBooks, 2001
Fleuves, Rivières Et Colonies: La France Et Ses Empires (XVIIe-XXe Siècle)
Commercial Practices at the Margins of the Merchant Economy
Textile Cultures in the Early Modern World
Review Of "European Approaches To North America, 1450-1640" By D. B. Quinn
University of South Carolina Press eBooks, May 21, 2020
The growth of the Atlantic economy should be one of the great themes of early modern history. But... more The growth of the Atlantic economy should be one of the great themes of early modern history. But the actual emergence and precise contours of that economy are difficult to discern. The data that reveal the increasing dynamism and commercial importance of the Atlantic basin were generated within empires constituted by and centered on European metropoles,' and up to the present, scholarship has largely remained within and mirrored those imperial bound aries. As a result, it is difficult to discern when (if at all) and the extent to which an economy rather than an aggregate of economies formed in the Atlantic basin. Is it, in fact, correct to speak of an Atlantic economy, or should we refer to the English imperial Atlantic economy, the French Atlantic economy, the Dutch, and so forth.? One way to try to answer this question is to look at goods consumed within the Atlantic world. If an Atlantic economy was coming into existence, we would expect that the process of material standardization that Timothy Breen has proposed for eighteenth-century British North America would obtain more widely.^ Is that what happened.? Did European expansion issue in common Atlantic consumption patterns.? Or was the fact that New World colonies were established by distinct European nations reflected in diverse colonial or imperial material cultures.? The Atlantic-even just the North Atlantic-covers a large space, and even in the early modern period the commodity flows were substantial. So in order to get a handle on them, and on the larger issue, this chapter concentrates on imported cloth in four cities in continental British and French North America and their more and less distant market areas, together with brief comparisons with England and France. It employs primary data bearing on (and for the most part still housed in) Montreal, Philadelphia, Charleston, and New Orleans and their commercial hinterlands. Each of these cities was a leading center in its empire and its region, trading with Native Americans, African Americans, and European Americans alike to export staples and supply necessary imports. This essay encompasses the period from the late seventeenth century to the 1760s/70s, a time when, scholars hold, the most rapid and major changes in con sumption occurred, adding up, in some accounts, to a consumer revolution.^ The
Review Of "The Rise And Decline Of Urban Industries In Italy And In The Low Countries (Late Middle Ages-Early Modern Times)" Edited By H. Van Der Wee
Review Of "The Rise Of Merchant Empires: Long Distance Trade In The Early Modern World, 1350-1750" Edited By J. D. Tracy
4. “A Few Shreds of Rough Linen” and “a Certain Degree of Elegance”
Amsterdam University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2023
Radical History Review, 1975