ロンドン商業社会とジェントリー : デフォーの時代を中心に

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Daniel DEFOE often confounded his readers when he spoke of the wealth of a merchant prince while he propagated the industriousness of a tradesman as though the latter were capable of attaining the prosperity of the former. The aim of the paper is not only to consider whether the feat within the reach of a mere tradesman, by analyzing such factors as the apprenticeship, marriage, kinship, and inheritance of real estates of both overseas merchants and tradesmen of the period, but also to clarify the characteristics of the two groups. The merchant prince loomed large in the age after the Restoration, especially in the mind of the lesser gentry, who cut a declining figure in the period. Both social milieu are contrasted in DEFOE's works, and provide a clue to the understanding of the contemporary society and its social mobility, against the background of the Financial and Commercial Revolution. The paper is factual investigation of the mercantile community of late seventeenth century London. The research is based on the data compiled and published by J.R. WOODHEAD under the title of The Rulers of London, 1660-1689, A Biopraphical Record of the Aldermen and Common Councilmen of the City of London.
社会経済史学会の論文
1993-03-25