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… a revolution in trade. Woollen cloth still dominated the export market, but there were dramatic developments in England’s re-export trade. New world commodities such as sugar and tobacco were exported into Britain and then … (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989); Margaret R. Hunt, The middling sort: Commerce, gender, and the family in England, 1680-1780 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). 6 . Paul Langford, A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992). 7 . John Chamberlayne, Magnae Britanniae Notitia: Or, the …
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