Gentlemen Merchants: The Merchant Community in Leeds, 1700-1830 |
Contents
I Introduction | 7 |
The merchant group identified | 9 |
Trade and manufacture 170083 | 39 |
The West Riding clothing districts in 1775 | 53 |
The merchants at work | 63 |
Expansion 17831806 | 97 |
The causes of defection 180630 | 119 |
Sketch map of the Aire and Calder Navigation | 138 |
63 | 162 |
Politics and religion | 191 |
The merchants in Leeds | 194 |
The population of Leeds 17711871 | 202 |
A The trade of Leeds home and foreign in manufs January 1782 | 239 |
B Biographical notes on principal merchants | 241 |
Bibliography | 249 |
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