Gentlemen Merchants: The Merchant Community in Leeds, 1700-1830 |
Contents
I Introduction | 7 |
The merchant group identified | 9 |
Trade and manufacture 170083 | 39 |
The merchants at work | 63 |
Expansion 17831806 | 97 |
The causes of defection 180630 | 119 |
Other economic interests page vii | 153 |
I | 157 |
37 | 160 |
63 | 162 |
Politics and religion | 191 |
The merchants in Leeds | 194 |
The merchants in the county | 237 |
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9 | 159 |
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