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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Bristol is the city that John Cabot sailed from and Thomas Chatterton dreamed that Hugh Latimer preached to and Oliver Cromwell seized that entertained Parliaments in the Middle Ages and rioted for Reform in the nineteenth century. Since the Norman Conquest it has always had an important place in English history experiencing events and con- tributing to developments that stirred the nation. What follows is an ac- count of its connection with one small piece of that history the rise of the Atlantic economy in the early modern period and the accompanying transformation of English economic ideas and practices. But this book is not about economics alone. It is grounded on the belief that we can no more abstract the economy from politics culture and society than we can separate intentional human action from thought and judgment. It also rejects the notion that the life of a city like Bristol could ever be treated as a self-contained whole. Instead it views such cities as social organisms living in close relationship with their surroundings. What gives them their structure is the set of internal codes they carry. And what enables them to survive is their ability to adapt to or transform their environment which itself is always changing. It was beyond my capacity to write this kind of history encyclopedi- cally. Even if the evidence necessary to define every relevant interrela- tionship had survived-it has not-I could not have distilled it all into words. Hence in place of a comprehensive treatment analyzing every as- pect of Bristol’s history in depth I offer an extended essay one that at- tempts to turn what I have been able to learn about early modern Bristol (SP)