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Author : Tom Rees
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Merchant Adventurers in the Levant written by Tom Rees and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Brenner
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789608856
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Merchants and Revolution written by Robert Brenner and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merchants and Revolution examines the activities of London's merchant community during the early Stuart period. Proposing a new understanding of long-term commercial change, Robert Brenner explains the factors behind the opening of long-distance commerce to the south and east, describing how the great City merchants wielded power to exploit emerging business opportunities, and he profiles the new colonial traders, who became the chief architects of the Commonwealth's dynamic commercial policy.
Author : Stephen Alford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620408236
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book London's Triumph written by Stephen Alford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of the dazzling growth of London in the sixteenth century. For most, England in the sixteenth century was the era of the Tudors, from Henry VII and VIII to Elizabeth I. But as their dramas played out at court, England was being transformed economically by the astonishing discoveries of the New World and of direct sea routes to Asia. At the start of the century, England was hardly involved in the wider world and London remained a gloomy, introverted medieval city. But as the century progressed something extraordinary happened, which placed London at the center of the world stage forever. Stephen Alford's evocative, original new book uses the same skills that made his widely-praised The Watchers so successful, bringing to life the network of merchants, visionaries, crooks, and sailors who changed London and England forever. In a sudden explosion of energy, English ships were suddenly found all over the world--trading with Russia and the Levant, exploring Virginia and the Arctic, and fanning out across the Indian Ocean. The people who made this possible--the families, the guild members, the money-men who were willing to risk huge sums and sometimes their own lives in pursuit of the rare, exotic, and desirable--are as interesting as any of those at court. Their ambitions fueled a new view of the world--initiating a long era of trade and empire, the consequences of which still resonate today.
Author : Thomas Leng
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192513303
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Fellowship and Freedom written by Thomas Leng and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first modern study of the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers - England's most important trading company of the sixteenth century - in its final century of existence as a privileged organisation. Over this period, the Company's main trade, the export of cloth to northwest Europe, was overshadowed by rising traffic with the wider world, whilst its privileges were continually criticised in an era of political revolution. But the Company and its membership were not passive victims of these changes; rather, they were active participants in the commercial and political dramas of the century. Using thousands of neglected private merchant papers, Fellowship and Freedom views the Company from the perspective of its members, in the process bringing to life the complex social worlds of early modern merchants. For members, 'freedom' meant not just the right to access a privileged market, but also to trade independently, which could conflict with the 'fellowship' of corporate affiliation, and the responsibilities to the collective that it entailed. The study's major theme is the challenge of maintaining corporate unity in the face of this and other pressures that the Company faced. It restores the centrality of the Merchant Adventurers within three important historical narratives: England's transition from the margins to the centre of the European, and later global, economy; the rise and fall of the merchant corporation as a major form of commercial government in premodern Europe; and the political history of the corporation in an era of state formation and revolution.
Author : Mortimer Epstein
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Early History of the Levant Company written by Mortimer Epstein and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wolf R. Baumann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311089307X
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Merchants Adventurers and the Continental Cloth-trade (1560s–1620s) written by Wolf R. Baumann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmond Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300257953
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Merchants written by Edmond Smith and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2023 RALPH GOMORY BOOK PRIZE "A superb book."--Jerry Brotton "Wonderfully wide-ranging and deeply-researched."--William Dalrymple "Sharply observed, innovatively analysed, and always accessible."--Nandini Das A new history of English trade and empire--revealing how a tightly woven community of merchants was the true origin of globalized Britain In the century following Elizabeth I's rise to the throne, English trade blossomed as thousands of merchants launched ventures across the globe. Through the efforts of these "mere merchants," England developed from a peripheral power on the fringes of Europe to a country at the center of a global commercial web, with interests stretching from Virginia to Ahmadabad and Arkhangelsk to Benin. Edmond Smith traces the lives of English merchants from their earliest steps into business to the heights of their successes. Smith unpicks their behavior, relationships, and experiences, from exporting wool to Russia, importing exotic luxuries from India, and building plantations in America. He reveals that the origins of "global" Britain are found in the stories of these men whose livelihoods depended on their skills, entrepreneurship, and ability to work together to compete in cutthroat international markets. As a community, their efforts would come to revolutionize Britain's relationship with the world.
Author : Philip Mansel
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300176228
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Levant written by Philip Mansel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not so long ago, in certain cities on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean, Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and flourished side by side. What can the histories of these cities tell us? Levant is a book of cities. It describes three former centers of great wealth, pleasure, and freedom—Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut—cities of the Levant region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. In these key ports at the crossroads of East and West, against all expectations, cosmopolitanism and nationalism flourished simultaneously. People freely switched identities and languages, released from the prisons of religion and nationality. Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and worshipped as neighbors.Distinguished historian Philip Mansel is the first to recount the colorful, contradictory histories of Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut in the modern age. He begins in the early days of the French alliance with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century and continues through the cities' mid-twentieth-century fates: Smyrna burned; Alexandria Egyptianized; Beirut lacerated by civil war.Mansel looks back to discern what these remarkable Levantine cities were like, how they differed from other cities, why they shone forth as cultural beacons. He also embarks on a quest: to discover whether, as often claimed, these cities were truly cosmopolitan, possessing the elixir of coexistence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews for which the world yearns. Or, below the glittering surface, were they volcanoes waiting to erupt, as the catastrophes of the twentieth century suggest? In the pages of the past, Mansel finds important messages for the fractured world of today.
Author : Robert Ashton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521224192
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (241 download)
Download or read book The City and the Court 1603-1643 written by Robert Ashton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979-09-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reinterprets London's role in the defeat of Charles I in the English Civil War.
Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351918109
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Merchant Networks in the Early Modern World, 1450–1800 written by Sanjay Subrahmanyam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merchant organisation was a global phenomenon in the early modern era, and in the growing contacts between peoples and cultures, merchants may be seen as privileged intermediaries. This collection is unique in essaying a truly global coverage of mercantile activities, from the Wangara of the Central Sudan, Mississippi and Huron Indians, to the role of the Jews, the Muslim merchants of Anatolia, to the social structure of the mercantile classes in early modern England. The histories of merchant communities are not their histories alone, but also the histories of assumptions concerning their contexts. From the comparative perspective adopted here, it emerges that in markets where Western European merchants vied for place with competitors from the Near East, South Asia or East Asia, they were very often unsuccessful.
Author : David B. Quinn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000963748
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Englad's Sea Empire, 1550-1642 written by David B. Quinn and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1983, England’s Sea Empire was originally part of the Early Modern Europe Today book series. It explores the relationships between the increase of English merchant shipping, the growth of naval power and the early experiments in overseas trade and colonisation. No other book combines these topics for the period from the middle of the 16th to the middle of the 17th century. In dealing with economic, strategic and technical problems, the authors write in language which is intelligible to non-specialist readers. They illustrate the arguments with generous quotations from contemporary sources and with maps of the regions under discussion. This book will be of value on undergraduate courses in early British or colonial or maritime history.
Author : William Robert Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Constitution and Finance of English, Scottish and Irish Joint-stock Companies to 1720 written by William Robert Scott and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Robert Scott
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Constitution and Finance of English, Scottish and Irish Joint-stock Companies to 1720: The general development of the joint-stock system to 1720 written by William Robert Scott and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book National and English Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The National Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The New English Review Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian W. Archer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521522168
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (221 download)
Download or read book The Pursuit of Stability written by Ian W. Archer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holistic approach to interpreting early modern London society.
