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English Capitalism and Capitalists, 1470–1740

English Capitalism and Capitalists, 1470–1740 70 REVIEW ARTICLES paths to explore. For the reader the effect is often stimulating and at its best exhila- rating, but for the author it must have been exhausting, even dangerous. Peter Ackroyd's triumph is to have created a book that shares so many of the qualities of London itself: sprawling, seemingly unplanned, sometimes overwhelming, yet at the same time intimate, intensely varied, fascinating and inspiring. Royal Holloway College, University of London DAVID GILBERT KEITH WRIGHTSON,Earthly Necessities. Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain. Yale University Press, London and New Haven, 2001. xii + 372 pages, 7 illustrations, index. ISBN 0-300-08391-2. Hardback £25.00. RICHARD GRASSBY, Kinship and Capitalism. Marriage, Family and Business in the English Speaking World, 1570-1740. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001. xix + 505 pages, index. ISBN 0 521 78203 1. Hardback £40.00. SUSANE. WHYMAN, Sociability and Power in Late-Stuart English. The Cultural World of the Verneys 1660-1720. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999. xiv + 287 pages, 22 illustra- tions, index. ISBN 0 19-820719 o. Hardback £45.00. For much of the twentieth century economic historians were seeking to discover the origins of English capitalism. For a while they thought that the answer to their search lay in the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present Taylor & Francis

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Taylor & Francis
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70 REVIEW ARTICLES paths to explore. For the reader the effect is often stimulating and at its best exhila- rating, but for the author it must have been exhausting, even dangerous. Peter Ackroyd's triumph is to have created a book that shares so many of the qualities of London itself: sprawling, seemingly unplanned, sometimes overwhelming, yet at the same time intimate, intensely varied, fascinating and inspiring. Royal Holloway College, University of London DAVID GILBERT KEITH WRIGHTSON,Earthly Necessities. Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain. Yale University Press, London and New Haven, 2001. xii + 372 pages, 7 illustrations, index. ISBN 0-300-08391-2. Hardback £25.00. RICHARD GRASSBY, Kinship and Capitalism. Marriage, Family and Business in the English Speaking World, 1570-1740. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001. xix + 505 pages, index. ISBN 0 521 78203 1. Hardback £40.00. SUSANE. WHYMAN, Sociability and Power in Late-Stuart English. The Cultural World of the Verneys 1660-1720. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999. xiv + 287 pages, 22 illustra- tions, index. ISBN 0 19-820719 o. Hardback £45.00. For much of the twentieth century economic historians were seeking to discover the origins of English capitalism. For a while they thought that the answer to their search lay in the

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