Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; Introduction; London on the eve of the English Civil War; Parliamentary taxation and levies; Parliamentarian finance; Supplying Parliament’s armed forces and privateering; Economic warfare; Domestic trade and consumer spending; International trade and shipping; Manufacturing industry; Economic fluctuations 1642-50; Index.

About the Author

Ben Coates, The History of Parliament Trust, London, UK

Reviews

'This is an important book, and deserves a wide readership.' Economic History Review '... an important book for scholars interested in the English Civil War or seventeenth-century London.' EH.NET '... an important contribution to our understanding of the impact of war on the early modern urban environment.' Urban History Newsletter '... this useful little book will prove of lasting value to historians of early modern London.' The London Journal 'Ben Coates has provided an excellent survey of London's - indeed, all of England's - economic journey during the decade of the 1640s.' Sixteenth Century Journal