The watchful clothier : the life of an eighteenth-century Protestant capitalist / Matthew Kadane.

By:

Kadane, Matthew

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and historyPublication details: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2013.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 302 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780300188936
0300188935

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Watchful clothier.DDC classification:

381.092 B 23

LOC classification:

HF3504.6.R93 K33 2013eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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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.