This is the first volume in a two-volume edition of a document of some importance in the economic and social history of Georgian England, and an important contribution to English textile history. James Oakes was the son of a prosperous linen-draper who had come from Manchester to seek his fortune in Bury St Edmunds early in the 18th century. At the age of 27 he inherited one of the largest yarn-making companies in the country from the uncle to whom he had been apprenticed. The decline of the yarn industry together with ...
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This is the first volume in a two-volume edition of a document of some importance in the economic and social history of Georgian England, and an important contribution to English textile history. James Oakes was the son of a prosperous linen-draper who had come from Manchester to seek his fortune in Bury St Edmunds early in the 18th century. At the age of 27 he inherited one of the largest yarn-making companies in the country from the uncle to whom he had been apprenticed. The decline of the yarn industry together with Oakes' appointment as Receiver General of the Land Tax for West Suffolk pushed him reluctantly into becoming a banker at a most uncertain period in England's financial history. He was also active in local politics, and knew, or was related to, most of the businessmen, clergy and parish gentry in and around Bury. In 1778, at the age of nearly 37, he began to write the diaries which he kept faithfully for the next 49 years. Their very span - half a century covering the American Revolution and the great wars with revolutionary and Napoleonic France - makes them a rare reflection and measure of the industry and trade, banking and politics of a small East Anglian town, itself a microcosm of English provincial society.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. This is the first of two volumes of the diaries of a provincial English businessman engaged in textiles, banking, and politics in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; the diaries cover a span of nearly 50 years, and are a reflection of the industry, trade, and banking, the politiccs, and the social life of a relatively stable community in East Anglia; in a book-length introduction, the editor provides the background of the family, the local society, and the local economy, particularly the textile industry; includes a frontispiece portrait of the author, as well as many other illustrations, and genealogical tables of the author's family; survey map of the town in 1776 on the end papers (olive textured cloth with gold lettering, end of spine and one corner slightly bumped; illustrated blue dust jacket has tear on back edge, enclosed in clear mylar cover; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)
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