Urbanisation and the growth of the professional and merchant classes
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- Urbanisation and the growth of the professional and merchant class
- Urbanisation
- Between 1625-88 there was increasing levels of urban development.
- Some towns became centres of distribution of a wider range of goods than what was stocked in the local market economies.
- A growing number of shops were established in towns which sold a wide range of goods.
- Eg tobacco, books, textiles, tea, ect.
- A growing number of shops were established in towns which sold a wide range of goods.
- Some towns became centres of distribution of a wider range of goods than what was stocked in the local market economies.
- Urban developement therefore became more concentrated in some larger existing market towns.
- Eg Norwhich grew from 10,000 people in 1550 to over 30,000 in 1650.
- This was mainly because of its importance as a centre of the cloth trade.
- New urban areas such as Manchester, Sheffield, Derby and Newcastle began to emerge through the combination of industrialied parishes.
- However, in 1688 the most populous 20 towns were the same as in 1625.
- Most of these towns were close to the sead or to navigatable rivers, which allowed for the easy movement of goods.
- Eg Norwhich grew from 10,000 people in 1550 to over 30,000 in 1650.
- Between 1625-88 there was increasing levels of urban development.
- The growth of the professional and merchant class
- Urban growth and the emergance of shops also brought the developement of the professional and merchant class.
- Service and leisure activities developed as part of this urban developement
- Catered to and exploit the urban market.
- Lawyers, doctors and estate agents had a larger client base in urban centres.
- Service and leisure activities developed as part of this urban developement
- In Stuart England, a high proportion of sons of the gentry studied at the Inns of Court in London.
- Had at least some legal training in order to meet the demands of landowning.
- Such widespread legal knowledge meant that early modern England was an extreemly litigious society.
- Means that there were lots of law suits.
- Other structural changes to the economy also brought about the greater emergance of the professions,
- As England increasingly competed with the Dutch and French after 1660, there was a necessary developement of administration
- War and trade demanded more servoces from doctors, lawyeers, financiers, teachers and architects.
- As England increasingly competed with the Dutch and French after 1660, there was a necessary developement of administration
- The years 1625-88 saw the growth of a merchant class involed in overseas trade.
- The East India Company was a very profitable enterprise.
- Traded in cotton, silk, tea and spices.
- It grew in importance under Charles II, who allowed the company to aquire territory in India in order to protect its trading interests.
- A growing number of London merchants became very rich on the proceeds of Indian trade.
- Other merchants were involved in the profitable sugar and tobacco trade with America.
- The East India Company was a very profitable enterprise.
- Urban growth and the emergance of shops also brought the developement of the professional and merchant class.
- Urbanisation
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