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      The Diligent Hand Maketh Rich’ : Commercial Advice for Retailers in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England
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      The Diligent Hand Maketh Rich’ : Commercial Advice for Retailers in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England

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      ByElizabeth Anne Rothenberg
      BookCultures of Selling

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2006
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 21
      eBook ISBN 9781315258652
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      ABSTRACT

      This chapter highlights the shift in commercial advice literature away from a focus on Christian ethics and duty in economic relationships in England during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It discusses a growing emphasis on practical skills and profit-making in guidebooks for retailers. The chapter illustrates how England’s financial revolution produced concrete changes in everyday commercial relationships. Despite the transformations in commercial advice literature, echoes remained of earlier discussions concerning Christian duty and ethics, and a number of handbooks and sermons continued to touch upon the issues. During the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, commercial advice literature began to focus on a more practical and worldly approach to business relationships. The financial transformations of the early eighteenth century inspired new understandings of commercial relationships. Evidence drawn from contemporary correspondence and diaries suggests that some traders did use religion in their daily commercial relationships.

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