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Among the most notable features of English economic development during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was a trend towards greater regional specialization. Increasingly, the barriers of local self-sufficiency were being broken down. In the wool-textile industry, wool-producing districts and cloth-manufacturing centres became more sharply defined as the internal wool market expanded. The widening of the market owed something to improvements in the means of communication, but more largely it was due to the rise of classes of professional middlemen and carriers, whose activities came to play an increasingly important role in the evolution of the domestic economy.
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Bowden, P.J. (1962). The Marketing of Wool. In: The Wool Trade in Tudor and Stuart England. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81676-7_3
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