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Oakes Diaries I. [The Jane Fiske

Oakes Diaries I. [The By Jane Fiske

Oakes Diaries I. [The by Jane Fiske


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`This admirable edition of the Oakes diaries is of the greatest value to everyone interested in Georgian England.' SIR JOHN PLUMB

Oakes Diaries I. [The Summary

Oakes Diaries I. [The: Business, Politics and the Family in Bury St Edmunds, 1778-1827. Introduction an by Jane Fiske

[East Anglian]Illustrated edition of an important document in the economic and social history of Georgian England. James Oakes was active in local politics, and knew, or was related to, most of the businessmen, clergy and parish gentry in and around Bury. In 1778 he began to write the diaries which he kept faithfully for the next 49 years. Their span - half a century covering the American Revolution and the great wars with revolutionary and Napoleonic France -makes them a unique reflection and measure of the industry and trade, banking and politics of a small East Anglian town, a microcosm of English provincial society.JANE FISKE gained her doctorate at the University of East Anglia for her study of Oakes' diaries.

Oakes Diaries I. [The Reviews

`Wide-ranging introduction....broadens our knowledge of the economic and social life of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century England' J.V. BECKETT, University of Nottingham. History 250, 6/92. ...also PLUMB from jacket...Useful for those interested in the economic, political and social history of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *

Table of Contents

James Oakes and the Suffolk yarn industry - 1778-1795; the receivership and banking; James Oakes - Bury politics and town government; family and social life; the Oakes diaries, 1778-1800.

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GOR006736605
9780851152752
0851152759
Oakes Diaries I. [The: Business, Politics and the Family in Bury St Edmunds, 1778-1827. Introduction an by Jane Fiske
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
1990-11-22
417
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