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The Watchful Clothier: The Life of an Eighteenth-Century Protestant Capitalist by Matthew Kadane

The Watchful Clothier: The Life of an Eighteenth-Century Protestant Capitalist

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History

Matthew Kadane

302 pages first pub 2013 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history
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A clothier and a deeply religious man, Joseph Ryder faithfully kept a diary from 1733 until his death, two and a half million words later, in 1768. Recently rediscovered and brilliantly interpreted by historian Matthew Kadane, Ryder's diary provid...

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