Wrigley london importance

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New issue alert. Receive exclusive offers and updates from Oxford Academic. Related articles in Google Scholar. We all get bogged down in the weeds, figuring out who did what and when, and with what effect. I am writing this, self-isolated, on April 1. No kidding. But only six of those citations were in the field of urban history, and only one of these has appeared since The fact is that, today, few urban historians, even in Britain, are much interested in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

What a shame! He brings together many issues: changes in family structures, literacy, innovations in manufacturing and sales, consumerism, transportation, commercial credit, incomes, and attitudes towards innovation. The capital provided the market that drove agricultural innovation. More generally, its economic and cultural influence was felt almost everywhere. Concisely, persuasively, Wrigley shows us how cities can matter, and in this case on a grand scale.

Certainly, Canadians like myself would find meager pickings. But reading Wrigley can inspire us to step back, to place particular research interests more firmly within wider processes of economic and cultural change. Best of all, it takes less than an hour to enjoy.

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