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List of Illustrations | ||
List of Tables | ||
Preface and Acknowledgments | ||
List of Abbreviations | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. 1 | The Setting: 1500-1680 | |
1 | The Demand for Luxury Goods and the Content of Shops | 15 |
2 | Coventry: A Period of Vigorous Decadence | 59 |
3 | The Mercers' Company: Like Walls after an Earthquake | 91 |
Pt. 2 | Embattled Tradesmen | |
4 | Crisis in the Import Trade, 1565-1583 | 121 |
5 | An Observance of Trifles: Who Would Sell the New Draperies | 143 |
6 | Peddlers and Merchant Princes: New Directions in Provincial Shopping | 159 |
Pt. 3 | Mercantile Politics and Merchant Dynasties | |
7 | No Other Weapon but Organization | 183 |
8 | A Craft So Long to Learn | 213 |
9 | Quick, Bright Things: The "Life Course" of Mercantile Dynasties | 243 |
Conclusion | 283 | |
Principal Primary Sources in the City of Coventry Archives | 291 | |
App. 1. Location of Coventry in Relation to All Midland Towns with a Population of 200 or More Families, 1523-1563 | 295 | |
App. 2. Companies Extant in Coventry, 1639 | 296 | |
App. 3. Members of Parliament for Coventry, 1547-1640 | 297 | |
App. 4. Officers of the Mercers' Company, 1579-1660 | 298 | |
App. 5. Receipts and Expenditures of the Mercers' Company, 1579-1660 | 301 | |
App. 6. Number of Apprentices Enrolled in Coventry Companies, 1560-1680 | 304 | |
App. 7. Balance of Accounts for the Mercers' Company, 1585-1685 | 305 | |
Index | 307 |
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