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The Merchant Adventurers of England

Author : William E. Lingelbach
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1584774428
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book The Merchant Adventurers of England written by William E. Lingelbach and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lingelbach, W.E. The Merchant Adventurers of England: Their Laws and Ordinances with Other Documents. Philadelphia: The Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania, [1902]. xxxix, 260 pp. Reprint available October 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-442-8. Cloth. $80. * With detailed notes and an extensive introduction. Chartered by the crown in 1474, the Merchant Adventurers was England's preeminent regulated international trading company until the early nineteenth century. This source book collects eighteen substantial documents written between 1407 and 1805, the most important years of the society's history. This group includes the Charter of 1407, extracts from the Charter of Edward IV (1462) and the Laws and Ordinances of 1608. Taken together, these records form one of the most detailed pictures of business organizations and methods during the later Tudor, the Stuart, and the early Hanoverian eras.

New World, Inc.

Author : John Butman
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316307874
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book New World, Inc. written by John Butman and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive. Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed, a small group of English merchants formed "The Mysterie, Company, and Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers for the Discovery of Regions, Dominions, Islands, and Places Unknown," the world's first joint-stock company. Back then, in the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it had begun to face a daunting array of social, commercial, and political problems. Struggling with a single export-woolen cloth-the merchants were forced to seek new markets and trading partners, especially as political discord followed the straitened circumstances in which so many English people found themselves. At first they headed east, and dreamed of Cathay-China, with its silks and exotic luxuries. Eventually, they turned west, and so began a new chapter in world history. The work of reaching the New World required the very latest in navigational science as well as an extraordinary appetite for risk. As this absorbing account shows, innovation and risk-taking were at the heart of the settlement of America, as was the profit motive. Trade and business drove English interest in America, and determined what happened once their ships reached the New World. The result of extensive archival work and a bold interpretation of the historical record, New World, Inc. draws a portrait of life in London, on the Atlantic, and across the New World that offers a fresh analysis of the founding of American history. In the tradition of the best works of history that make us reconsider the past and better understand the present, Butman and Targett examine the enterprising spirit that inspired European settlement of America and established a national culture of entrepreneurship and innovation that continues to this day.

The Book of Privileges of the Merchant Adventurers of England, 1296-1483

Author : Anne F. Sutton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Privileges of the Merchant Adventurers of England, 1296-1483 written by Anne F. Sutton and published by . This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of the trading privileges granted to the merchants of England by the princes of the Low Countries reveals the increasing value of cross-Channel trade throughout the 14th and 15th centuries. French, Latin, and Dutch texts are accompanied by the 15th century English translations, forming a unique historical and linguistic tool.

Fellowship and Freedom

Author : Thomas Leng
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192513303
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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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.

London's Triumph

Author : Stephen Alford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620408236
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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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.

Merchant Adventurers

Author : James Evans
Publisher : Phoenix
ISBN 13 : 9781780221021
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Merchant Adventurers written by James Evans and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Merchant Adventurers' illuminates wider themes in the history of exploration, trade, science, globalisation, and the making of modern England. In 1553 three ships sailed from London into uncharted waters. They sought a northern passage to Asia and its riches. Although they failed to reach China, their achievements would lay the foundations for England's expansion on a global stage.

The Merchant Adventurers of England

Author : William Ezra Lingelbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Merchant Adventurers of England written by William Ezra Lingelbach and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Merchant Adventurers of England

Author : Douglas R. Bisson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Merchant Adventurers of England written by Douglas R. Bisson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the first systematic treatment in English of the preeminent regulated company, the Merchant Adventurers of England, during the early sixteenth century. The author analyzes the symbiotic relationship between the Crown and Company and concludes with a discussion of how war and diplomacy influenced the Company's fortunes.

Merchant Kings

Author : Stephen R. Bown
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429927356
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Merchant Kings written by Stephen R. Bown and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. They managed their territories as business interests, treating their subjects as employees, customers, or competitors. The leaders of these trading enterprises exercised virtually unaccountable, dictatorial political power over millions of people. The merchant kings of the Age of Heroic Commerce were a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life men who, for a couple hundred years, expanded their far-flung commercial enterprises over a sizable portion of the world. They include Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the violent and autocratic pioneer of the Dutch East India Company; Peter Stuyvesant, the one-legged governor of the Dutch West India Company, whose narrow-minded approach lost Manhattan to the British; Robert Clive, who rose from company clerk to become head of the British East India Company and one of the wealthiest men in Britain; Alexandr Baranov of the Russian American Company; Cecil Rhodes, founder of De Beers and Rhodesia; and George Simpson, the "Little Emperor" of the Hudson's Bay Company, who was chauffeured about his vast fur domain in a giant canoe, exhorting his voyageurs to paddle harder so he could set speed records. Merchant Kings looks at the rise and fall of company rule in the centuries before colonialism, when nations belatedly assumed responsibility for their commercial enterprises. A blend of biography, corporate history, and colonial history, this book offers a panoramic, new perspective on the enormous cultural, political, and social legacies, good and bad, of this first period of unfettered globalization.

Merchants and Revolution

Author : Robert Brenner
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859843338
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Merchants and Revolution written by Robert Brenner and published by Verso. This book was released on 2003-08-17 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major reinterpretation of the transformation of English commerce in the century after 1550.

The Internal Organisation of the Merchant Adventurers of England

Author : William Ezra Lingelbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Internal Organisation of the Merchant Adventurers of England written by William Ezra Lingelbach and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Merchants

Author : Edmond Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300264496
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Merchants written by Edmond Smith and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660

Author : Peter Wilson Coldham
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 0806310820
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660 written by Peter Wilson Coldham and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1984 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cases brought before the High Court of Admiralty involving court cases involving ships which reflect the individual hands who signed onto those ships sailing to Colonial America.

Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004416641
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law examines the connections that existed between merchants’ journeys, the languages they used and the development of commercial law in the context of late medieval and early modern trade. The book, edited by Stefania Gialdroni, Albrecht Cordes, Serge Dauchy, Dave De ruysscher and Heikki Pihlajamäki, takes advantage of the expertise of leading scholars in different fields of study, in particular historians, legal historians and linguists. Thanks to this transdisciplinary approach, the book offers a fresh point of view on the history of commercial law in different cultural and geographical contexts, including medieval Cairo, Pisa, Novgorod, Lübeck, early modern England, Venice, Bruges, nineteenth century Brazil and many other trading centers. Contributors are Cornelia Aust, Guido Cifoletti, Mark R. Cohen, Albrecht Cordes, Maria Fusaro, Stefania Gialdroni, Mark Häberlein, Uwe Israel, Bart Lambert, David von Mayenburg, Hanna Sonkajärvi, and Catherine Squires.

Henry VII's London in the Great Chronicle

Author : Julia Boffey
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580443842
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Henry VII's London in the Great Chronicle written by Julia Boffey and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This modernized extract from The Great Chronicle of London covers the reign of England's first Tudor king, Henry VII (1485-1509). It gives an eye-witness account of events in London, and of news from elsewhere, from the viewpoint of a well-to- do citizen who was closely involved in civic administration. It describes many notable public events: riots and uprisings, executions, coronations, royal marriages and funerals, and ceremonial activities involving the mayor and aldermen. Its year by year entries also cover matters like the weather, the cost of living, taxes, and the effects of building work undertaken in the city. Although its compiler worked to a scheme common to other London chronicles from the period, he was ready to express his own views on a number of matters, and wrote with keen observation and occasional wit.

A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Town & County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Including the Borough of Gateshead

Author : Eneas Mackenzie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Town & County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Including the Borough of Gateshead written by Eneas Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fleeting Empire

Author : Andrew Nicholls
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773581375
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Fleeting Empire written by Andrew Nicholls and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the future of North American rule was decided by the battle between British and French forces on the Plains of Abraham, Britain's emerging imperial interests were represented by ambitious merchants and privateers. A Fleeting Empire examines the lives and exploits of early European adventurers in North America, revealing the murky mix of self-interest, patriotism, and adventure that motivated them. The union of the English and Scottish crowns in 1603 gave rise to a new British seafaring community, which the early Stuart monarchy used to pursue some of the first commercial and colonial ventures in North America. Among those who sailed across the Atlantic were the Kirke brothers, who in 1629 forced Samuel de Champlain's surrender of Quebec, Sir William Alexander of Menstrie, a rising political figure and patentee of Nova Scotia, and James Stewart of Killeith, leader of a colony on Cape Breton Island. King Charles I was more concerned with brokering a peace with France than looking to the new world, so the gains of the merchant adventurers were short-lived, but their adventures provide a tantalizing glimpse of a moment of British colonial control, suggesting what might have been. Andrew Nicholls showcases the enterprises of knights and privateers alike, providing a fascinating account of early European colonies, commerce, and military force in North America. A Fleeting Empire forces us to see the early histories of Canada and the United States in a new light.