Drawing on largely untapped records of private firms as well as on institutional archives, Richard Grassby describes and explains the economic and technical structure of business in a pre-industrial economy and examines the ways in which ...
Explores the nineteenth-century American artist's marine paintings The extensive text by Richard Grassby offers a biography of Buttersworth and a survey of his paintings and maritime environment art.
North was not only a celebrated merchant and economist, but an important and controversial servant of Charles II and James II. Richard Grassby exploits the extraordinary wealth of documentation available to establish how North made a ...
Born in Darjeeling under the Raj, the author (and subject) moves to England and then Wales during World War II, to Oxford and the north of Scotland in adult life, and to New York City and Washington D.C. in middle age.
Cultural historians have made the study of material culture and consumption a subject in its own right and a necessary precondition of industrialization.