It focuses on the transformation of three crafts - silk weaving, beer brewing, and the silver-trade. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book places the phenomenal growth of early modern London and technological developments within particular trades in broader European contexts. It proposes a new way of conceptualising the process of skill diffusion: movements of skills from Europe, spread of skills within the immigrant population, and transmission of skills from immigrants to English artisans. The anglicisation of foreign skills was a protracted process, often taking more than three centuries to complete. Known to contemporaries as aliens or strangers, the inferior status of immigrants and the resulting discrimination acted as major obstacles, affecting both their ability to integrate and their willingness to impart trade secrets. The book ends with a consideration of present-day immigration debates by suggesting some of the lessons we can draw from the early-modern experience of migration.
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It focuses on the transformation of three crafts - silk weaving, beer brewing, and the silver-trade. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book places the phenomenal growth of early modern London and technological developments within particular trades in broader European contexts. It proposes a new way of conceptualising the process of skill diffusion: movements of skills from Europe, spread of skills within the immigrant population, and transmission of skills from immigrants to English artisans. The anglicisation of foreign skills was a protracted process, often taking more than three centuries to complete. Known to contemporaries as aliens or strangers, the inferior status of immigrants and the resulting discrimination acted as major obstacles, affecting both their ability to integrate and their willingness to impart trade secrets. The book ends with a consideration of present-day immigration debates by suggesting some of the lessons we can draw from the early-modern experience of migration.
- ISBN:
- 9780754603306
- 9780754603306
- Category:
- History
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 10-11-2005
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 384
- Dimensions (mm):
- 234x156x28mm
- Weight:
- 0.68kg
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