TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kadane,Matthew
TI  - The watchful clothier: the life of an eighteenth-century Protestant capitalist 
T2  - The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
SN  - 9780300188936
AV  - HF3504 .W383 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New Haven [Conn.
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Merchants
KW  - England
KW  - Leeds
KW  - Diaries
KW  - Clothing trade
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Double-minded men --; "My character & conduct" --; "That single word watch" --; "An active frame in courts below" --; "The sparks that fly upward" --; Mourning, melancholy, and money --; The changing meaning of God and man --; The making of a middle-class mind; 2; b
N2  - A clothier and a deeply religious man, Joseph Ryder faithfully kept a diary from 1733 until his death, 2.5 million words later, in 1768. Recently rediscovered and interpreted by the author of this book, Ryder's diary provides a real-life perspective on the relationship between capitalism and Protestantism at a time when Britain was rapidly changing from a traditional to a modern society. It also provides insights into the early modern family, the birth of industrialisation, the history of Puritanism, the origins of Unitarianism, melancholy, and the making of the British middle class
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