The Development of Retail Trade in Provincial England, ca. 1550–1700
- 1 March 1980
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 40 (1) , 123-128
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700104632
Abstract
This study analyzes the content and distribution of shops in provincial England between 1550 and 1700. Its major finding is that although retail trade was declining at markets and fairs, most tradesmen did not develop product specialization until the mid-seventeenth century.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Fairs of Elizabethan EnglandEconomic Geography, 1942