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Through the study of a regional industry, the book illustrates the impact of an expanding national market on a previously isolated market, offering new insights into a pioneer industry in the West and into the business methods and procedures of the time. The book discusses the growth of a myriad of small processing and manufacturing plants which drew raw materials from, and geared production and sales to that local economy, enjoying as they did, protection from eastern competitors who were saddled with high freight rates. The book demonstrates that once urbanization occurred in the region, bri
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A prominent philanthropist, landowner & politician near Halifax, John Lister was dedicated to his community. He founded a Catholic school in Halifax & a reformatory trade school in the grounds of his ancestral home. A keen local historian, Lister became involved in the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, particularly in the later years of his life. Along with four other volumes, he edited for the Society this 1924 publication. Transcribing customs records from Hull & records made by royal officials in the 14th & 15th centuries, Lister describes in his introduction how the wool trade developed & became a central part of the livelihood & character of Yorkshire. He discusses imports & exports, the lives of merchant families, & how the merchandise itself evolved as wool-working developed.
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